Dean Swift Snuff is a snuff blended by Wilsons of Sharrow specially created for the US market. Dean Swift Snuff until 2012 hadn't been blended for a number of years. It is now once again in production, and you can again buy fresh Dean Swift Snuff and see why it was a favourite across the pond.
Dean Swift - is named after Jonathan Swift English / Irish satirist, prolific author perhaps most famous for Gulliver's Travels and notorious snuff taker. Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. It is reported that he took so much snuff that even his prayer book was 'sullied' with it...