Richard Wainwright

WAINWRIGHT, Richard. b. Manchester, 1757 (baptized 8 July); d. Liverpool, 20 August 1825. He was the younger son of John Wainwright* and younger brother of Robert*. He became organist of the Collegiate Church, Manchester in 1775, and also of St Ann’s Church. He moved to Liverpool in 1782 to succeed his brother as organist of St Peter’s Church: he played there until 1804, when he moved to Preston and became organist of the parish church until ca. 1810. He returned to St Peter’s, Liverpool, in 1812. According to the Companion to CP (1953), in a dreadful anecdote (not in ODNB), ‘in his middle years his hand was injured by the wanton act of an enemy and he never played again; but he continued...