Theobald wolfe tone autobiography definition
Theobald wolfe tone autobiography definition
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Theobald Wolfe Tone
Tone, Theobald Wolfe, was born in Dublin, 20th June 1763. [His grandfather owned property at Bodenstown, County of Kildare; his father carried on business as a coachbuilder, in Stafford-street, Dublin.]
Theobald Wolfe Tone.
From a portrait by his daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Sampson Tone. Image borrowed from Irish Orators and Oratory, introduced by T. M. Kettle.
Education
Theobald, with his brothers William and Matthew, attended a school kept by Rev. William Craig, where he managed to pull through his lessons in three days out of the six, and devoted the rest of the week to country rambles and attending the parades, field days, and reviews of the Dublin garrison.
In February 1781, much against his will, he entered Trinity College.
He says:
“I continued my studies at college as I had done at school; that is, I idled until the last moment of delay. I then laboured hard for about a fortnight before the public examinations, and I always secured good