Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright I

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright I

:"This page is about Episcopal bishop Jonathan M. Wainwright. For others named Jonathan Wainwright, see Jonathan Wainwright (disambiguation).

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright I (1792 – September 21, 1854) was an Episcopal bishop.

He was born in England in 1792 to Peter Wainwright and Elizabeth Mayhew. His father Peter, was a tobacconist who emigrated from England to Boston before the American Revolution. Peter and Elizabeth returned to England for the birth of their first son in 1791. They didn't return to Massachusetts until eleven years later. Jonathan's siblings include: Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (1791-?); and Eliza Wainwright (1794-?) who married Walter Channing. Jonathan graduated from Harvard College in 1812 and was instrumental in the founding of New York University. He was consecrated as a provisional Bishop for the Dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in 1852. He died in 1854.

Children

*Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright II

Consecrators

* The Most Reverend Thomas C. Brownell, Presiding Bishop
* The Right Reverend George W. Doane, Bishop of New Jersey
* The Right Reverend Jackson Kemper, Bishop missioner

References

* "The Episcopal Church Annual". Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005).

External links

* [http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/jmwainwright/ Documents by and about Wainwright] from Project Canterbury


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