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Wolfe statue at his birthplace Westerham, Kent. James Wolfe was born at the local vicarage on 2 January 1727 (New Style or 22 December 1726 Old Style) at Westerham, Kent, the older of two sons of Colonel (later Lieutenant General) Edward Wolfe, [1] a veteran soldier whose family was of Anglo-Irish origin, and the former Henrietta Thompson.
James Wolfe was the son of a distinguished general, Edward Wolfe who rented Spiers. [3] Wolfe lived there from 1728 until 1738. [4] The house was renamed after his victory at the Battle of Quebec. [2] It was occupied in 1911 by Canadian author Henry Beckles Willson and his family. [5]
Lieutenant-General Sir James Wolfe Murray KCB (13 March 1853 – 17 October 1919) was a British Army officer who served in the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War, Second Boer War and First World War. He became Chief of the Imperial General Staff three months after the start of the First World War, but was ineffectual and was replaced in September 1915 ...
Lieutenant General Edward Wolfe (1685 – 26 March 1759) was a British army officer who saw action in the War of the Spanish Succession, 1715 Jacobite rebellion and the War of Jenkins' Ear. He is best known as the father of James Wolfe , famous for his capture of Quebec in 1759.
John Hale by Joshua Reynolds Captain John Hale, 47th Foot. General John Hale (1728–1806) was a British army officer, who is remembered chiefly for his close friendship with General James Wolfe, and for his exceptionally large number of children by his wife Mary Chaloner, a noted beauty who was painted by Joshua Reynolds.
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (22 November 1721 – 27 October 1824) [1] was a Canadian cartographer who served in the Seven Years' War, as the aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe. [ 2 ] DesBarres is perhaps best known as the creator the monumental four-volume Atlantic Neptune , the most important collection of maps, charts and views of ...
Next on the royal family tree is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the first-born son of Prince Charles and his late wife, Diana, Princess of Wales. By virtue of his being male, from the moment ...
Murray served under General James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Murray believed Wolfe's plan to land the army at Anse au Foulon was foolish and absurd, and succeeded "only by Providence". [4] He was the military commander of Quebec City after it fell to the British.