_Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin._--It is remarkable (and yet
it has not been noticed, I believe, by his biographers) that Dean Swift was
suspended from his degree of B.A. in Trinity College, Dublin, for exciting
disturbances within the college, and insulting the junior dean. He and
another were sentenced by the Board to ask pardon publicly of the junior
dean, on their knees, as having offended more atrociously than the rest.
These facts afford the true solution of Swift's animosity towards the
University of Dublin, and account for his determination to take the degree
of M.A. at Oxford; and the solution receives confirmation from this, that
the junior dean, for insulting whom he was punished, was the same Mr. Owen
Lloyd (afterwards professor of divinity and Dean of Down) whom Swift has
treated with so much severity in his account of Lord Wharton.