Famous Freemason - Jonathan Swift

Swift was though to have expended full one third of his income on charity.

“A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.”

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".

Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub in 1704, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in 1712, Gulliver's Travels in 1726, and A Modest Proposal in 1729.

He is regarded as one of the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.

His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian"

Swift was thought to have expended a full one third of his income on charity.

Brother Swift was raised in Lodge Goat-at-the-Foot-of-the-Haymarket, No. 16, London England