Bishop Butler

Population (1891), 3,669. Wantley, Dragon of. See Dragon . Wanya a. See Nganga . a Fleming (?) by birth. He claimed to be the Duke of York, son of Edward IV. In 1492 he landed at Cork, and soon went to France, where he was recognized as Duke of York by the court; made an unsucce ful landing in Kent in 1495; was acknowledged by James IV. of Scotland in 1496; unsucce fully invaded England with the Scotch in 1496; went to Ireland and made a descent upon Cornwall in 1497, but was captured; escaped from the Tower in 1498, but was retaken; and was condemned and executed in 1499. He was made the subject of a tragedy by Ford, called "The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck" (1634), and also of a play by Charles Macklin, the actor, called "King Henry VII., or the Popish Impostor" (1716). Another, called "The Pretender," was written by Joseph Elderton, an attorney, but never acted. Warburg (vär börg). A town in the province of Westphalia, Pru ia, situated on the Diemel 21 miles northwest of Ca el. It was an ancient Hanseatic town. Here, July 31, 1760, Ferdinand of Bruns wick defeated the French. Population (1890), 5,043. War burton (wârber-ton), Eliot Bartholomew George. Born near Tullamore, Ireland, 1810: died at sea, Jan. 4, 1852. An Irish traveler and novelist. He traveled in the East, and per ished in the burning of the Amazon on the way to Darien. He published "The Crescent and the Cro " (1844), "Memoir of Prince Rupert" (1849), "Reginald Hastings" (1850: a novel), "Darien" (1851: a novel). War burton, John. Born Feb., 1682: died 1759. An English antiquarian. He was made Somerset herald in 1720. He published a number of maps, and "Vallum Romanum, or the History and Antiquities of the Roman Wall" (1753), etc. He made a large collection of MSS., engravings, books, etc., but is principally known to posterity as the master of a carele cook who burned a large number of valuable plays for waste paper: hence the entries in dramatic catalogues, "Burned by Mr. War burton's servant." 1869. Wapping (wop'ing). A quarter of London, Thames, situated along the north bank of the Thames, below the Tower. Wappinger (wop'in-jer). A tribe, sometimes regarded as a confederacy, of North American Indians which occupied the east bank of the Hudson River from near Poughkeepsie to Manhattan Island, and extended to or beyond the Connecticut River. They were divided into nine villages or chieftaincies. The western bands were much reduced by the Dutch in 1640, and the remnants afterward became merged in the Del a wares. Derivations of the name are from words meaning severally 'east' and 'c See Algonquian . 'opo um.' Wappinger's Falls (wop'in-jėrz falz). A village in Dutche County, New York, situated on Wappinger's Creek, near the Hudson, 59 miles north of New York. Population (1900), 3.504. War and Peace. A historical novel by Tolstoi, published 1865-68. The scene is laid in the time of the czar Alexander I., and the novel is a picture of Ru ian society during the Ru ian-French wars. War anger Fjord. See Varanger Fjord . Warbeck (wâr'bek), Perkin. Executed Nov. 23, 1499. A pretender to the English crown, Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward). Born at And over, Ma ., Aug. 13, 1844. An American writer, the daughter of Austin Phelps. Her works include "The Gates Ajar" (1868), "Men, Women, and Ghosts" (1869), "Hedged In." "The Silent Partner," and "The Trotty Book" (1570), "Trotty's Wedding Tour" and "What to Wear" (1873), "The Story of Avis" (1877), "An Old Maid's Paradise (1879), "Burglars in Paradise," "Beyond the Gates" (1883), "Dr. Zay" (1884), "The Gates Between" (1887), etc. Ward, Frederick Town send. Born at Salem, Ma ., Nov. 29, 1831: killed in battle near Ning- po, China, Sept. 21, 1862. An American adven- turer. He organized for the Chinese government the "Ever Victorious Army" against the Taiping rebels; won Wargla various victories; and was made a high-grade mandarin and admiral-general. He was succeeded by "Chinese" Gordon. Ward, Genevieve: the stage name of Lucia Genoveva Teresa Ward, Counte Guerbel. Born at New York, March 27, 1833. An American singer and actre . She was educated in France and Italy, her musical education being supervised by Ro ini. She first appeared in opera at Milan, and sang with succe in Italy and Paris. She had married a Ru ian, Count Guerbel, before appearing on the stage, and sang under the name of Guerrabella. She came to America in 1862, but after a short time lost her voice and went upon the dramatic stage. She appeared in 1873 in New York, and in the same year at Manchester, England, where she was succe ful as Lady Macbeth, Con stance, etc. She has since played in Paris (in French), and in England and America in "Forget Me Not," "Jane Shore," etc. She leased the Lyceum in London in 1879, and made a tour around the world 1882-85. She afterward acted with Sir Henry Irving in "Becket," etc Ward, Mrs. Humphry (Mary August a Arnold). Born at Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1851. An English novelist. She is the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold (of Rugby), and married Thomas Humphry Ward in 1872. Her works include the novels "Mi Bretherton" (1884), "Robert Elsmere" (1888), "David Grieve" (1892), "Marcella" (1894), "Story of Be ie Costrell" (1895), "Sir George Tre ady" (1896); biographical and critical works; and a translation of "Amiel's Journal" (1885). Ward, John Quincy Adams. Born at Urbana, Ohio, June 29, 1830. An American sculptor. He studied with Henry K. Browne, working with him for six years; in 1861 opened a studio in New York; and was vice-president of the National Academy of Design 1870-71, and president in 1872. Among his statues are "The Indian Hunter," "The Pilgrim," "Shakspere," and "Seventh Regiment Soldier" (all in Central Park, New York); "The Freedman," "The Good Samaritan," etc.; statues of Commodore Perry, General Israel Putnam, General Thomas, George Washington (Wall street), Henry Ward Beecher (in front of the City Hall, Brooklyn); and numerous portrait busts. Ward, Lester Frank. Born at Joliet, Ill., 1841. An American botanist and geologist. He served in the Civil War, and graduated at Columbian University (1809); was a istant geologist of the United States Geological Survey 1881-88, and has been geologist since 1888. Among his works are "Haeckel's Genesis of Man" (1879), "The Flora of Washington, etc." (1881), "Dynamic Sociology" (1883), "Sketch of Paleo-Botany" (1885), "Flora of the Laramie Group" (1886), "Types of the Laramie Flora" (1887), "Geographic Distribution of Fo il Plants" (1888), etc. Ward, Nathaniel. Born at Haver hill (?), England, about 1578: died in England about 1653. An English preacher and author. He emigrated to Ma achusetts in 1634; lived in Ipswich (Agawam); and returned to England in 1647. He was the author of the satirical work "The Simple Cobler of Agawam" (1647). Ward, William Hayes. Born at Abington, Ma ., June 25, 1835. An American Orientalist, archæologist, and journalist. He graduated at Am herst in 1856, and at Theological Seminary in 1859; and has been editor of the New York "Independent" since 1870. He was director of the Wolfe archæological expedition to Babylonia 1884-85. Warden (wâr'den), Florence. The pseudonym of Mrs. Florencë Alice Price James, an English novelist. Wardle (wâr'dl), Mr. A hospitable kindly bustling old gentleman, the owner of Manor Farm, Dingley Dell, the host and friend of the Pickwick Club: a character in Charles Dickens's "Pickwick Papers." Mi Rachel Wardle, his old but girlish sister, who elopes with Alfred Jingle; his very deaf old mother; and his daughters Isabella and Emily, form the Wardle family.