Richard Wainwright

Richard Wainwright may refer to:

  • Richard Wainwright (American Civil War naval officer) (1817–1862), Commander in the Union Navy during the American Civil War
  • Richard Wainwright (composer) (1757–1825), English church organist and composer
  • Richard Wainwright (politician) (1918–2003), British politician and businessman
  • Richard Wainwright (Spanish–American War naval officer) (1849–1926), officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War
  • Richard Wainwright (World War I naval officer) (1881–1944), officer in the United States Navy during World War I, awarded the Medal of Honor

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    “Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
    —Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)