Life and Career
Wade was born in Dublin and worked as a surgeon before moving to London.
Wade was known for his arrangement of "Peter Gray," as well as popular songs that included "I've wandered in dreams," "Love was once a little boy," "A woodland life," and his most famous, "Meet me by Moonlight." Walt Whitman referred to Wade, having his eponymous hero in "Samuel Sensitive" sing a phrase of Wade's "Meet me by Moonlight."
His son Joseph Augustine Wade was also a composer.
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