A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wainwright, John
WAINWRIGHT. (Lieut., 1819. h-p., 18; h-p., 21.)
John Wainwright is eldest son of the late Capt. John Wainwright, R.N., C.B., who conducted, in the Chiffonne 36, a successful expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf in 1809, had charge in 1814, when Captain of the Tonnant 80, of the boats employed at the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the Patuxent, and became afterwards Lieut.-Governor of the Royal Naval College.
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Chiffonne 36, commanded by his father, under whom in the following year he witnessed the attack made on the Persian pirates. In Jan. 1813, after an interval of three years, he joined, as Midshipman, the Puissant 74, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, lying at Spithead: in the following Aug. he entered the Royal Naval College; and between May, 1815, in the course of which month he left that institution, and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 4 Nov. 1819, he was employed on the Home and St. Helena stations in the Madagascar and Phaeton frigates, both commanded by Capt. Fras. Stanfell, Racoon sloop, Capts. Jas. Wallis and Geo. Brine, Conqueror 74, Capt. F. Stanfell, Magicienne 42, Capt. John Brett Purvis, and Ramillies 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis. His last appointments were – in June, 1820, to the Forte 44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, stationed, until Oct. 1824, in the West Indies and on the coast of North America – 18 April, 1825, to the Blossom 24, Capt. Fred. Wm. Beechey, under whom he was for three years employed on Surveying-service – and 7 Sept. 1829, to the Melville 74, Capts. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg and Christopher John Williams Nesham, in the Mediterranean. He has been on half-pay since the commencement of 1831.
Lieut. Wainwright married, 27 Jan. 1821, Elizabeth, second daughter of Sam. Powell, Esq., of Upper Harley Street, London, and of Brandlesome Hall, co. Lancaster, by whom he has issue. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.