WINGFIELD, John Henry Ducachet, P. E. bishop, born in Portsmouth, Virginia, 24 September, 1833. At the age of thirteen he entered St. Timothy's college, Maryland, where he was graduated in 1850. He served as tutor there for two years, joined the senior class of William and Mary college, Virginia, in 1852, and was graduated in 1853. Returning to St. Timothy's, he spent another year in teaching, and in the autumn of 1854 removed to New York and became a tutor in the Churchill military academy at Sing Sing. In 1855 he entered the Theological seminary of Virginia, where he remained only one year, removing to Arkansas, and accepting the office of principal of Ashley institute, at Little Rock. He was ordained priest, in the chapel of the Theological seminary of Virginia, 1 July, 1859, by Bishop Johns. In July, 1858, he became assistant to his father, who was rector of Trinity church, Portsmouth, Virginia He was rector of Christ" church, Rock Spring, Harford County, Maryland, in 1864, but returned to Portsmouth to his old post in 1866. Two years afterward he became rector of St. Paul's church, Petersburg, Virginia, where, in 1871, he founded St. Paul's school for young ladies. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by William and Mary college in 1869, and that of LB. D. by the same college in 1874. In that year he removed to California, and was rector of Trinity church, San Francisco. During the session of thee general convention at New York in 1874 he was elected missionary bishop of northern California, and he was consecrated in St. Paul's church, Petersburg, Virginia, on 2 December, 1874, but remained in charge of his parish until April, 1875. He became president of the missionary college of St. Augustine, Benicia, and in 1876 head of St. Mary's of the Pacific, a school for girls, and rector of St. Paul's church in that city. He was elected bishop of Louisiana in 1879, but declined.