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* 1687, + 1738-10-10, Irish Anglican cleric and writer
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Thomas Sheridan
* 1687, + 1738-10-10, Irish Anglican cleric and writer

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    Education: attended Dublin school of John Jones; Trinity College, Dublin (matriculated 1707); B.A., TCD, 1711; MA, 1714; BD 1724; DD 1726
    Patrons: Lord Carteret (who made Sheridan a chaplain, but then removed it after Sheridan gave a possibly unintentional anti-Hanoverian sermon)
    Periodicals etc.: edited periodical “The Intelligencer” with Swift in Dublin in 1728 and 1729
    Overall: Sheridan was an ordained priest and a strong classicist who taught school in Dublin--he received his first benefice at age 38 and never acquired much patronage. He was a close friend of Swift's until late in life, and his oeuvre has a poor-man's-Swift quality to it: lots of broadside squibs and coterie verse published as broadsides; puns and jocular verse; and an essentially secular albeit moralizing poetic persona (though there is one published sermon). Unclear w/o reading them what social/economic work these published poems were supposed to do.