Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

male, deceased (1745)
cleric, satirist, Anglo-irish, Christian, Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford, pamphleteer…The Drapier's Letters, A Tale of a Tub, TheBattleoftheBooks
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works...
William Wotton

William Wotton

male, deceased (1727)
Christian Hebraist, Literary dunce, celticist, From suffolk, Literary dunces, English…Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge, Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, TheBattleoftheBooks, Fellow of the Royal Society
William Wotton (August 13, 1666 - February 13, 1727), was an English scholar, chiefly remembered for his remarkable abilities in learning languages...

Thomas Cooke

male, deceased (1756)
poet, ancient greek, Literary dunce, daily journal, opera, Translator…TheBattleoftheBooks, The Bath, or, The Knight of the Bath, The Battle of the Poet
Thomas Cooke (1703 - 1756) was a very active English translator and author who ran afoul of Alexander Pope and was mentioned as one of the "dunces"...