A Sermon Preached on the Anniversary of the Boston Female Asylum for Destitute Orphans

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright I (1792-1854) 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 and was the rector of Trinity Church, Boston. He died in 1854. He was the author of A Sermon Preached on the Anniversary of the Boston Female Asylum for Destitute Orphans (1835).