A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wolfe, Charles

by John William Cousin

Wolfe, Charles (1791-1823).—Poet, s. of a landed gentleman in Kildare, was b. in Dublin, where he completed his ed. at Trinity Coll., having previously been at Winchester. He took orders, and was Rector of Donoughmere, but his health failed and he d. of consumption at 32. He is remembered for one short but universally known and admired poem, The Burial of Sir John Moore, which first appeared anonymously in the Newry Telegraph in 1817.