WOLFE, CHARLES (1791-1823), Irish poet, son of Theo bald Wolfe of Blackhall, Co. Kildare, was born on Dec. 14, 1791.
He was educated at English schools and at Trinity college, Dub lin, where he matriculated in 1809 and graduated in 1814. He was ordained priest in 1817, and obtained the curacy of Bally clog, Co. Tyrone, which he shortly exchanged for that of Don oughmore in the same county. He died at Cork on Feb. 21, 1823,
in his 32nd year. Wolfe is remembered 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.