"Wright, Samuel, D.D., an eminent English Dis- senter, was born at Retford, Nottinghamshire, in 1G82. He was pastor at Blackfriars, London, from 1708 to 1734, when he removed to a meeting-house in Carter Lane, Southwark, and died in 174G. He published, A Little Treatise of Being Born Again (1715): — Treatise on the Relir/ious Observance of the hordes Day (3d ed. 1726): — Human Virtues; or. Rules to Live Soberly (1730) : — Deceitfulness of Sin (1731) : — and other works. See Aliibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v.
Wulfram (or Wulfrann), St., apostle to the Fri- sians and bishop of Sens, was of patrician family, and was born about A.D. 650, at Milly. He became monk and abbot at Fontenelle, to which monastery he donated his family-seat of Milly, and afterwards was chaplain to the French court, and bishop of Sens. In C84 or G85 he devoted himself, with several brother monks, to the missionary work among the Frisians, his personal asso- ciate for a time being a Burgundian count named Gan- gulf or Gengulf, who was afterwards killed by a clergy- man, the paramour of his wife. Wulfram is credited, while in the prosecution of his missionarj^ labors, with having recovered a lost paten from the sea by prayer; with having cured paralytics and other invalids by anointing them with oil; with having preserved alive a boy who was hanged by the Frisians in honor of their divinities, and two other boys who were about to be
drowned from similar motives. Tradition states that Wulfram was on the point of baptizing Radbod, the Frisian king, when tlie latter, standing with one foot in the water, imiuircd wliether his unbaptized ancestors were to be found in heaven or in hell, and being as- sured that they were in hell, withdrew his foot and de- clared that he would not be separated from his royal ancestors. The devil thereupon appeared to the king and incited him to persist in idolatry, until he was driven away by the sign of the cross. Radbod, how- ever, died unbaptized. Widfram, about 689, returned to Fontenelle, and died in G95 (others say 720 or 740). The martyrologies assign to him March 20. See Bol- land. Acta SS. Martyr. (Antw. 16G8), iii, p. 143-1 Go: Rettberg, Kirchengesch. Deutschlands (Gcitt. 1848), p. 574 sq., and the literature there referred to ; also Herzog, Real-Encyklop. s. v.
Wulstan (Wulfstan, or Wolstau) (1), a monk of Winchester, lived in the 9th century. He was the author of a work on the Harmony of Tones, a poem in Latin hexameters on the Miracles of St. Swithin, and a prose Life ofBishoj) Ethelwold. See Aliibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v.
"Wulstan (2), an English prelate of the 11th cen- tury, became archbishop of York in 1003, holding along with that dignity the bishopric of Worcester, and died in 1023. He is supposed to be the author of the Anglo- Saxon Homilies, to which is affixed the name of Lupus Episcopos. One of these may be found in Hickes, Thesaurus, iii, 99-106. See VVright, Biog. Brit. Lit. (Anglo-Saxon Period), p. 505.
"Wulstan (3), the last of the Anglo-Saxon prelates, was born at Icentum, Warwickshire, about 1007. He was educated at Evesham and Peterborough, and was ordained a presbyter at the usual age. He then be- came a monk at Worcester, and gradually rose in that monastery until at last he became prior. In 1062 he was chosen bishop of Worcester, and succeeded in res- cuing that see from the control of tlie archbishop of York. He enjoyed the favor of William the Conquer- or, and after him of his son Rufiis. He rebuilt the Ca- thedral of Worcester; put down an insurrection of .the adherents of Duke Robert of Normandy; and defended the city against an army of the rebels led by Roger de Montgomery. He died in Worcester, either on Nov. 23 or Jan. 19, 1095. He is not known to have written any- thing either in Saxon or Latin, though an attempt has been made to prove that he was the author of tlie en- tries in the Saxon Chronicle from 1034 to 1079. See William of jMalmesbury, De Gestis L'ondfcum ; Whar- ton, Anglia Sacra, vol. ii.
"Wyatt, AViLLiA.M E., D.D., a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, a native of New York city, was ordained deacon in 1810, and priest shortly after. In 181 1 he was pastor of St. John's Parish, New- town, L. I.; in 1814 he became associate rector of St. Paul's Parish, Baltimore, subsequently succeeding to the rectorship, which he retained until the close of liis life. He died June 24, 1864, aged seventy-six years. Through all this period he was a member of the Standing Com- mittee of his diocese; was delegate to every General Convention; and during thirty years was president of the Lower House. In 1820 he was professor of theol- ogy in the L^niversity of Maryland. He published a volume oi Family Prayers: — a volume of Bishop Kemp's Sermons : — the Christian Altar : — and a number of pam- phlets, tracts, etc. See American Quar. Church Rev. Oct. 18G4, p.483.
"Wyckhoff, William II., LL.D., a minister of the Baptist dencimination, was born in the city of New York, Sept. 10, 1807, and was a graduate of Union Col- lege in tlie class of 1828. After leaving college, he was for several years the principal of the classical depart- ment of a collegiate school in New York. In 1839 he became the editor of The Baptist Advocate, now The