Family and Education
b. 29 Oct. 1787 He gave his own date of birth as ‘29th October 1792’: Dod MS, iii. 1155. 2nd s. of Stephen Woulfe, of Tiermaclane, Ennis, co. Clare (d. 1794), and Honora, da. of Michael McNamara, of Dublin. educ. StonyhurstHe is said to have been taught at the Catholic seminary, but is not recorded in the school register: W.H. Curran, Sketches of the Irish Bar (1855), i. 5. ; Lay College, Maynooth; Trinity College, Dublin 1808, BA 1812; King’s Inns 1810; MT 1812, called [I] 1814. m. 1821, Mary Frances, o. da. of Roger Hamill, of Dowth Hall, co. Meath. 1s. 1da. d. 2 July 1840.
Offices Held
PC [I] 4 Apr. 1837.
Sol.-gen. [I] 10 Nov. 1836 – 3 Feb. 1837; att.-gen. [I] 3 Feb. 1837 – 11 July 1838.
KC 1832; assist.-barrister co. Galway 1828 – 30; 3rd sjt. 23 May 1835; l.c.b. [I] 20 July 1838.
Member Royal Dublin Society.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: 11 Ely Place, Dublin, [I]; 11 North Street, Westminster.
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Commons 1832-1868
Clubs
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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