■Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, D.D., a bish- op of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born in Liv- erpool, England, Feb. 24, 1792. His parents were on a visit to England when he was born, and they remain- ed there until he was eleven years old. During this period he spent several years at a school at Ruthin, in North Wales. When his parents returned to the United States, he was placed in Sandwich Academy, ^lass., and in due time entered Harvard College, from which he grad- uated in 1812. For some time after his graduation he was proctor and teacher of rhetoric there, and meanwhile had resolved to enter upon the ministry. In 181G he became a deacon, and not long after assumed charge of Christ Church, Hartford. Conn., where he was admitted to priest's orders; IMay 29, 1819, he was made rector of the parish ; Nov. 25 lie was called to be an assistant minister of Trinity Church, New York city, where he continued to serve until he was elected rector of (irace Church, in the same city, early in 1821. With this Church he spent thirteen years of his ministry. In 1834 he accepted the rectorship of Trinity Church, Bos- ton, but remained only three years, when he returned to New York as assistant minister of Trinity Church, the congregation of St. John's Chapel becoming his more immediate charge, and in this relation he contin- ued until the close of his life. He became involved in a controversy with the Kev. Dr. Potts, of New York, in 1844, which grew out of an assertion which he had made, that "there is no Church without a bishop." It was conducted in the form of letters in the Neiv York Commercinl Adverivier, and w\as afterwards published in pamphlet form. His health having become impair- ed, he travelled extensively in ?]urope and the East in 1848-49 for recreation: and after his return he pidv lished two large volumes on Egypt and the Holy Land. June 1.% 18.52, he was a representative of the Episcopal Ciuirch in America at the celeliration in Westminster Abbey, at the close of the third jubilee year of the Soci- ety for the Propagation of the (Jospel in Foreign Parts. On this occasion Oxford bestowed upon him the degree of D.C.L. Oct. 1, 1852. he was chosen provisional bishop of the diocese of New York, and was consecrated Nov. 9 following. Among the various ofKees which he had previously tilled, it may be mentioned that he was a deputy from the diocese of New York to the General Convention of 1832 ; was a member of the Diocesan
Standing Committee from 1829 to 1833; was replaced on that committee in 1844, and was continued there by four successive conventions; from 1828 to 1834 was secretary of the Board of Trustees of the (iencral Theo- logical Seminary; for many years a trustee of Trinity School; a trustee of the Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning in the State of New York; a vice-president of the New York Bible and Prayer-book Society; a trustee of the Tract Society; and, from the begimiing, one of the executive committee and a mem- ber of the Board of the (Jeneral Sunday-school L^nion. Dr. Wainwright died in New York city, Sept. 21, 1854. Among his literary productions are nmnerous published discourses and several books, viz. : Patliirni/s and Abid- ing Places of Our Saviour (1850): — Tico Orders of Famihj Prayer (1845, 1850): — The Land of Bondage (1851). He also edited two volumes of Memoirs, one of bishop Ravenscroft, of North Carolina, and one of bishop Heber. Dr. Wainwright was a lover of the fine arts, and his taste in these matters was excellent. His sermonic style was perspicuous, but there was little or- nament and apparently little elaboration. His elocu- tion evinced careful culture. He had a strong relish for social life, and attracted the relined by his urbane manners. See Spiague, A }mals of the A mei: Puljnt,y, GIO.
"Wairewert (or 'Vairevert), in Hindi'i mythol- ogy, is the son of Siva, born from his breath to humble Brahma.
"Waishwanara (or 'Vaishvanara). in Hindu mythology, is a surname of Agni (god of tire), and means the all-pernieuting fire.
"Wait, Daniel Gi ilfoiu),LL.D., an English divine, was born in 1789, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He was for some time curate of Puckle Church, near Bristol, and in 1819 became rector of Blag- don, Somerset. He died in 1850. He published several works, in which he gives the results of his researches in the Hebrew and other Oriental languages and an- tiquities.
'Wait, Lying in (3"iX"3, 'ivtcpa). The natives of Western and Central Asia have in all ages been infa- mous for their plundering propensities. Their daring in watching caravans can only be ecpialled by their patient watchings in ambuscade ; they will remain sometimes for days and even weeks, with a very scanty supjily of provisions, waiting to surprise the unguarded caravan or the unwary traveller. Homer aptly de- scribes such characters {Iliad, xviii) :
"A place for ambnsli tit they found, and stood Cnver'd witli shields liesid'e a silver flnorl, Two spies at distance lurk, and watchful seem, If slieep or oxen seek tlie winding stream. Soon tlie white flocks proceeded o'er the plains, And steers slow moving, and two shepherd swains Behind them, piping on their reeds, they go, Nor fear an ambush, nor suspect a f</e; In arms the glittering squadron rising round. Rush sudden ; hills of slaughter heap the ground ; Whole flocks and herds he bleeding on the plains, And all amidst them, dead, the shepherd swains !"