Strype, John. 1643–1737. Historian. Author Annals of the Reformation, Life of Cranmer, etc.
Stuart, Gilbert. 1742–1786. Historian. Author View of Society in Europe, Hist. of Scotland, etc. An accurate but prejudiced writer.
Stubbs, Wm. 1825 ——. Historian. Author of The Constitutional Hist. of England, The Early Plantagenets, etc. Pub. Est. Mac.
Stukely, Wm. 1687–1765. Antiquarian writer.
Suckling, Sir John. 1609–1641. Of his gay, airy verse, the Ballad upon a Wedding is most widely known. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2.
Sugden, Edward B., Baron St. Leonards. 1781–1875. Jurist of high rank. Author Handy Book on Property Law, etc. Pub. Jo.
Sumner, John Bird. 1780–1862. Abp. Canterbury. Religious writer. Author Practical Reflections, etc.
Surrey, Earl of. See Howard, Henry.
Swain, Charles. 1803–1874. Poet. His verse is pleasing, but has little strength. Pub. Rob.
Swift, Jonathan. 1667–1745. Irish satirist. Author Battle of the Books, Tale of a Tub, Drapier's Letters, Gulliver's Travels, etc. Style coarse, bitterly savage and personal, but of great vigor, keenness, and force. See Lives, by T. Sheridan and Forster; also, Taine's Eng. Lit., Thackeray's Eng. Humorists, Leslie Stephen's Swift, in Eng. Men of Letters, and Masson's Novelists. Pub. Hou.