Edmund Lewis Swift

Like his father Theophilus Swift, Edmund Lewis Lenthal Swift was a barrister and a poet. He attended Trinity College Dublin (not in Alumni Dublinenses), and was called to the bar in Dublin, and later in England (1815). Swift wrote against Catholic emancipation, was keeper of Regalia in the Tower of London, and lived to the remarkable age of ninety-nine years.

TEXT RECORDS:

1815Waterloo, a Poem.
1815Waterloo: the Proeme.

PUBLICATIONS:

The life and acts of St. Patrick [Jocelinus, trans. Swift]. 1809.
Anacreon in Dublin, etc. 1815.
Waterloo and other poems. 1815.
Juvenal's 10th and 13th Satires [trans. Swift]. 1818.
The equality of the constitution. 1819.
Woman's will — a riddle! An operatic drama. 1820.
One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, or, shall it be so? 1829.
Homeric studies. 1840.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

Irish
Anglican

Trinity College Dublin

lawyer
poet
translator

St. James's Chronicle
The Morning Post
The Sun
Forget-Me-Not
Poetical Register

REFERENCE:

Not DNB; not NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed).

Poetical Register for 1801 (1802), 1802 (1803), 1804 (1805); Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); obituary in Irish Law Times (22 January 1876) 49; Illustrated London News 43 (1876); Frederic Boase, in Modern English Biography (1892-1921); D. J. O'Donoghue, Poets of Ireland (1912).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Edmund Lewis Swift:

1.	1815  John Taylor Esq., "To Edmund Lewis Swift, Esq. of the Regalia Office, Tower, of his Poems of Waterloo, &c. &c." The Sun (11 November 1815).
2.	1912  D. J. O'Donoghue, in Poets of Ireland (1912) 447.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Edmund Lewis Swift:

1.	1901  Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography (1892-1921) 3:848-49.
2.	1912  D. J. O'Donoghue, in Poets of Ireland (1912) 446.