CHARLES

See also:

• CHARLES WOLFE (1791-1823)
• WOLFE, JAMES (1727-1759)

WOLFE (1791-1823)  , Irish poet, son of Theobald Wolfe of Blackhall, Co . Kildare, was born on the 14th of December 1791 . He was educated at English schools and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he matriculated in 1809 and graduated in 1814 . He was ordained priest in 1817, and obtained the curacy of Ballyclog, Co . Tyrone, which he shortly exchanged for that of Donoughmore in the same county . He died at Cork on the 21st of February 1823 in his thirty-second year . Wolfe was well known as a poet in Trinity College circles . He is remembered, however, solely by his stirring stanzas on the " Burial of Sir John Moore," written in 1816 in the rooms of Samuel O'Sullivan, a college friend, and printed in the Newry Telegraph . See John Russell, Remains of the Rev . Charles Wolfe (2 vols., 1825; 4th ed., 1829), and a correspondence in Notes and Queries, 8th series, vol. viii. pp . 145, 178, 235, 253, 331 and 418 .