Charles Maturin, Irish author and playwright (died 1824)

Charles Maturin

Irish Protestant clergyman and writer (1780-1824)

Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin, was an Irish Protestant clergyman and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. His best known work is the novel Melmoth the Wanderer, published in 1820 which made a great impact on writers such as Balzac, Baudelaire and Poe.