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Liverpool, England, F.-b. 24, 1702; son of Peter and Elizabeth (Mayhew) Wainwright, an.l grand- son of the Rtv, Dr. Jonathan (4. v.) and Elizabeth (Clark) Mayhew. His fath.-r, an English nier- cliant. iiad established iiiinself not long after the Revolutionary war in Boston, Mass., and was in business in Liverpool, where his children were born. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwrigiit attended private schools in Liverpool and Ruthven, North Wales; returned with his parents to America in 1803; continued his education at the Sandwich academy. Cai»e Cod, and was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1812. A.M.. 1815. He was proctor of the univei-sity and instructor in rhetoric and oratory, 1815-17; ordered deacon in St. John's cluirch. Providence. R.I., in 1816, and advanced to the priesthood in Christ church, Hartford, Conn., May 29, 181S, of which church he served as rector until November 2.j, 1819, when he be- came assistant minister of Trinitj' church, New York city. He was married in August, 1818, to Amelia Maria, daughter of Timotliy Phelps of New Haven, Conn. He was rector of Grace church, New York city, 1821-34; of Trinity, Boston, 1834-37, visiting England and Europe under the auspices of the church, and returned in 1837 to Trinity. New York city, serving as as- sistant in charge of St. .Joiin's chapel until 1852. He spent the years 1848-49. in travel in the far Ea.st; was elected provisional bisliop of New York, Oct. 1, 1852, Bishop Onderdonk being at the time under suspension, and was consecrated in Trinity church. New York city, Nov. 10, 1852, by Bishops Brownell, Doane and Kemper, assisted by Bishops De Lancey. Whittingham, Chase, Williams and Fulford. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon Bishop Wainwright by Union, 1823, and by Harvard, 1834, and that of D.C.L. by the University of Oxford, England, 1852. He assi.sted in the founding of the Uni- versity of New York; was secretary of the board of trustees of thf General Theological seminary.

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1828-34, and of the house of bishops from 1841, until after 1852; a delegate to the general con- ventions of 1832 and 1853, and held various other

important ecclesiastical trusts. His musical pub- lications include: Book of Chants (1819); Music of the Church (1828); The Choir and Family Psalter, with Dr. W. A. Muhlenberg (1851), and he is the author of: Four Sermons on Eeligioiis Education (1829); Lessons on the Church (1835); No Church WitJiout a Bishop, a newspaper con- troversy with Dr. George Potts (1844); Order of Family Prayer (1845); Short Family Prayers (1850); Pathways and Abiding-places of our Lord (1851); The Land of Bondage (1852), and numer- ous sermons. He also edited: •' Life of Bishop Heber" (1830); Bishop Ravencroffs •"Sermons" (1830); "Our Saviour with Prophets and Apos- tles " and ' ' Women of the Bible "( 1 850-53). See: " A Memorial Volume," edited by his widow (1856), and his " Life" by Dr. J. N. Norton (1858). The Church of St. John the Evangeli.st was erected to his memory on Waverley Place, New York city, in which city he died. Sept. 21,1854.

WAINWRIGHT, Jonathan Mayhew, naval officer, was born in New York cily, July 27, 1821; son of the Rt. Rev. Jonathan Mayhew (q.v.) and Amelia Maria (Phelps) Wainwrigiit. He entered the U.S. navy in 1841; became passed midship- man in 1843; was commissioned lieutenant in 1850; lieutenant-commander, 1861. He was lieu- tenant-commander on board the Harriet Lane, flagship of Commodore David D. Porter in the passage of the forts on the Mississippi, and he received the surrender of Commander Mitchell of the Confederate steamer Mississippi, and refused that officer the terms granted the officers of the fort on the ground that he had violated the flag of truce by firing the Mississippi while the terms of capitulation were being arranged. He commanded the Harriet Lane in the gulf operations of 1862-63; and took possession of Galveston Bay in October, 1862. In the battle of Jan. 1, 1863, the Harriet Lane bore the brunt of the attack, and when the crew of the Confederate steamer Bayou City ran alongside and opened a musketry fire from behind a breastwork of cotton bales, Commander Wainright was killed and his first lieutenant, Lea, mortally wounded. His son, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright of the U.S. Naval academy, class of 1867, master on board the Mohican, San Blas, Mexico, died from wounds received in action with pirates, June 19, 1870; another son, Capt. Robert Powel Page Wainwright, of the 1st U.S. cavalry, was commended by Gen. Joseph Wheeler for good conduct at the battle of La Quasina, Cuba, 1898; and his daughter, Marie, became a prominent actress. Commander Waiu- wriglit's deatli ofnurred Jan. 1. 1863.

WAINWRIGHT, Richard, naval officer, was born in Charlestown. Mass.. Jan. 5, 1817; son of Rol^rt Duerand Maria (.\nchmuty) Wainwright. He was warranted midshipman, U.S.N., May 11,