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SOL  a love of Ireland by railing against England. . . Though Stokes was all his life a staunch Tory, even the men of '48 — Davis and Mangan, and their comrades — all knew him and loved him, and felt that they had, in some respects, his sincere sympathy. There were indeed few people who were not attracted by the largeness of his heart, and the quick response of his overflowing sympathy."  Sullivan, Francis S., an eminent legal writer, was born in the south of Ireland early in the 18th century, and graduated in Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected a fellow in 1738. He died about 1775. His principal works were, a Treatise on Feudal Law, and Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England. Of the first, an eminent legal writer, quoted by Allibone, says: "We know of no work on feudal learning and the first principles of the English constitution, equal in merit or interest. . . Copious in detail, and exhibiting ably, among other topics, the influence of the feudal system upon the modern law of tenures."  Sullivan, Sir Richard Joseph, Bart., the author of numerous works, was born in Ireland about the middle of the 18th century. He spent part of his early life in India in the service of the East India Company, and on his return made a tour of Great Britain. His first work appears to have been The Political History of India, London, 1779. Next year followed A Tour through England, Scotland, and Wales. His other writings were of a minor character, except a View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller among the Alps, 6 vols. 1794. "The last volume alone," says the Gentleman's Magazine, "is in any degree worthy of a philosophic pen." He entered Parliament in 1802, was created a baronet in 1804, and died at his seat in Surrey, 17th July 1806.  Sullivan, Robert, LL.D., the author of a number of educational works, was born at Holywood, County of Down, in January 1800. He was educated at the Belfast Academical Institution, graduated in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1829, and, on the introduction of the system of National Education into Ireland in 1831, was appointed an inspector. He was afterwards transferred to the Training Department, as Professor of English Literature. His Geography, Spelling Book, Literary Class Book, Grammar, and Dictionary, have gone through numerous editions, and are constantly being reprinted. The touching expressions he received from time to time of the gratitude of those whom his sympathy had encouraged or his generosity had aided, showed the kindliness of his nature, and his success in communicating knowledge. He died in Dublin, 11th July 1868, aged 68, and was buried at Holywood. The most important of his works, his Dictionary of the English Language, has been improved in recent editions by the labours of Dr. P. J. Joyce.  Sweetman, John, a leading United Irishman, a Dublin brewer, and a connexion of Lord Cloncurry, was born in 1752. He took an active part on the Catholic Committee, and was one of the delegates to the Catholic Convention, the proceedings of which resulted in the partial Relief Act of 1793. He was greatly beloved and trusted by the leading United Irishmen, and assisted the escape of Hamilton Rowan to France. In March 1798 he was arrested, and after an incarceration of some months was sent to Fort George, Scotland, with the other state prisoners, and was deported to the Continent in 1802. He was afterwards permitted to return to Ireland. He died in May 1826, aged 74, and was buried at Swords. Dr. R. R. Madden describes him as "a man of high intelligence, sound judgment, and sober, well-considered opinions, strongly attached to the rights and interests of his country, as they were understood, and acted on conformably. Of his integrity there seems to have been but one opinion entertained—all his associates placed entire confidence in him," Wolfe Tone writes in his Journal on 1st March 1798, on receiving a report of his death: "A better and a braver heart, blood never warmed; I have passed some of the pleasantest hours of my life in his society. If he be gone my loss is unspeakable, but his country will have a much severer one; he was a sincere Irishman, and if ever an exertion was to be made for our emancipation, he would have been in the very foremost rank; I had counted upon his military talents."  Swift, Jonathan, Dean of St. Patrick's, was born at 7 Hoey's-court, Dublin, 30th November 1667. [His father, an Englishman, was steward of the King's Inns, and died some months before Jonathan's birth, leaving his wife and children dependent mainly on the bounty of his brother Godwin, who, with other members of the family, had settled in Ireland.] When Jonathan was some months old, his English nurse, having occasion to cross to Whitehaven, on the death of a relative there, "stole him on shipboard unknown to his mother and uncle," as he says himself, and he was not brought back to Ireland for more than two years. In that

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