Tone, Theobald Wolfe (–98), United Irishman, political publicist, diarist, and French army officer, was born 20 June in Dublin either at Liffey Street or at 44 Stafford Street. Around the time of his birth, his family moved to 44 Stafford Street (now Wolfe Tone Street) where he spent his childhood. Tone was born into a modest, middle-class protestant family, the eldest of sixteen.