Which satirist attended Kilkenny College as a boy (sent there by his uncle Godwin, alongside philosopher George Berkeley) and later spent long stretches in London between 1707 and 1710, unsuccessfully urging the Whig administration to grant Irish clergy the same financial rights as their English brethren?

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Jonathan Swift. Jonathan Swift attended Kilkenny College as a boy alongside philosopher George Berkeley, sent there by his uncle Godwin, and he later spent long stretches in London between 1707 and 1710 urging the Whig administration to grant the Irish clergy the same financial rights already granted in England.