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About Elizabeth Swift
Thomas Swift and his wife, Elizabeth Dryden, grandparents of Jonathan "Dean" Swift, the celebrated Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, and author of Gulliver's Travels. Elizabeth Dryden was the sister [SIC: aunt] of John Dryden, the first official English Poet Laureate.
SWIFTE, THOMAS.Matric. pens. from TRINITY, Easter, 1611. S. of William (1584), R. of Harbledown , Kent~ B. in St. Andrew's, Canterbury. B.A. from Queens', 1614-15; M.A. 1619. Ord. deacon (London) Sept. 19; priest, Dec. 19, 1619, age 24. C. of Harbledown, Kent. V. of Goodrich and Bridstow, Hereford; ejected, 1646. Pres. of Hereford, 1645-6. Devoted Royalist; suffered great persecution. Married Elizabeth Dryden, sister of the poet. Died 1658, aged 63. (His son Jonathan was father of Dean Jonathan Swift)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dryden (1631-1700)
John Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was rector of All Saints. He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet (1553–1632), and wife Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and Parliament. He was a second cousin once removed of Jonathan Swift.
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Sir Erasmus Dryden, of Canons Ashby, 1st Baronet was the son of John Dryden who built Canons Ashby House, Northamptonshire. Erasmus' mother, Elizabeth Cope, was the daughter of Sir John Cope, from whose heirs the Drydens purchased the priory and village remnants of the Canons Ashby estate.[1] Sir Erasmus Dryden was the grandfather of the poet John Dryden[1] (through his third son, Erasmus) and he was also the uncle of Elizabeth (Dryden) Swift, who was the grandmother of Jonathan Swift.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745)
Swift's family had several interesting literary connections. His grandmother Elizabeth (Dryden) Swift was the niece of Sir Erasmus Dryden, grandfather of poet John Dryden.
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Elizabeth Swift's Timeline
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1605
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Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1627 |
1627
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Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom
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December 3, 1633
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Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom
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1635
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May 24, 1640
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Goodrich, Herefordshire, England
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1641
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Greencastle, Down, Ulster, Ireland
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October 2, 1948
Age 343
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| 2002 |
September 28, 2002
Age 397
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