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Jonathan Swift was born on November 30, in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Protestant Anglo-Irish parents: his ancestors had been Royalists, and all his life he would be a High-Churchman. His father, also Jonathan, died a few months before he was born, upon which his mother, Abigail, returned to England, leaving her son behind, in the care of relatives.

In , at the age of six, Swift began his education at Kilkenny Grammar School, which was, at the time, the best in Ireland. Between and he attended, and graduated from, Trinity College in Dublin, though he was not, apparently, an exemplary student. In William of Orange invaded England, initiating the Glorious Revolution : with Dublin in political turmoil, Trinity College was closed, and an ambitious Swift took the opportunity to go to England, where he hoped to gain preferment in the Anglican Church.

There Swift read extensively in his patron's library, and met Esther Johnson, who would become his "Stella," and it was there, too, that he began to suffer from Meniere's Disease, a disturbance of the inner ear which produces nausea and vertigo, and which was little understood in Swift's day. In , at the advice of his doctors, Swift returned to Ireland, but the following year he was back with Temple in England.

He visited Oxford in in , with Temple's assistance, he received an M. In , still anxious to advance himself within the Church of England, he left Temple's household and returned to Ireland to take holy orders. In he was ordained as a priest in the Church of Ireland, the Irish branch of the Anglican Church, and the following year he returned to Temple and Moor Park.

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Between and Swift composed most of his first great work, A Tale of a Tub , a prose satire on the religious extremes represented by Roman Catholicism and Calvinism, and in he wrote The Battle of the Books , a satire defending Temple's conservative but beseiged position in the contemporary literary controversy as to whether the works of the "Ancients" — the great authors of classical antiquity — were to be preferred to those of the "Moderns.

In he was instituted Vicar of Laracor — provided, that is, with what was known as a "Living" — and given a prebend in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. These appointments were a bitter disappointment for a man who had longed to remain in England. In Swift was awarded a D. In Swift was sent to London as emissary of Irish clergy seeking remission of tax on Irish clerical incomes.

His requests were rejected, however, by the Whig government and by Queen Anne, who suspected him of being irreligious.