The New International Encyclopædia/Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew

WAIN'WRIGHT, Jonathan Mayhew (1792-1854). Protestant Episcopal bishop. He was born in Liverpool, England, of American parentage. He graduated at Harvard College (1812); became rector of Christ Church, Hartford, Conn. (1816); assistant minister of Trinity Church, New York (1819); rector of Grace Church (1821), and of Trinity Church, Boston (1834); took charge of Saint John's Chapel, Trinity Parish, New York (1838); and was elected provisional bishop of the diocese of New York, and consecrated in 1852. Among his published writings are: There Cannot be a Church Without a Bishop (1844); The Pathways and Abiding-Places of Our Lord (1851); and The Land of Bondage (1852). Consult his memoirs by J. N. Norton (New York, 1858).