Abstract
JONATHAN SWIFT, in 1686 a Bachelor of Arts of Trinity College, Dublin, until late in life maintained a strong interest in the welfare of the university from which he had graduated. It appears that one reason for Swift's visit to Ireland in 16901691 was to sit for a Junior Fellowship. In a letter of May 29, 1690, Sir William Temple recommended his protegse to the secretary of state for Ireland, Sir Robert Southwell, for a Junior Fellowship at T.C.D. Since the college was then recovering from the disastrous policy of James II, no fellowships were granted until May 1692, by which time Swift had returned instead to Moor Park by way of Oxford, where he took his Master's degree.' In October 1692 St. George Ashe, Swift's college tutor, was appointed provost of Trinity College; and it was through such friends as Ashe who were Senior or Junior Fellows of T.C.D. that Swift continued to follow with considerable interest the fortunes of the college.
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