Cathedral (Bumpus). His first wife, Jane, the daughter of Robert Harward, died on 10 July 1682, aged 30, and was buried in the churchyard. The administration grant of Wise's goods, of 28 Sept. 1687, gives the names Jane and Harward as those of two elder children, while his youngest girl bears the name of a second and surviving wife, Barbara, and not Margaret, as erroneously stated by Hoare. She renounced probate, and the children, all minors, were placed under the guardianship of John Hopkins clericus.
Dr. Aldrich is said to have composed the second part of the anthem, ‘Thy beauty, O Israel,’ on the death of Wise (Bumpus).
Wise, Blow, and Humphrey, who were all trained together by Henry Cooke, form a transition school of English church music, and constitute a link between the foreign style which, encouraged by the king, struggled for mastery after the Restoration, and the original genius of Henry Purcell, for whose bold new harmonies and modulations they paved the way.
Among published music by Wise are: 1. ‘Old Chiron thus preached.’ 2. Catches in the ‘Musical Companion,’ 1667. 3. ‘I charge you, O Daughters,’ in Dering's ‘Cantica Sacra,’ 1674. 4. ‘New Ayres and Dialogues,’ 1678. 5. ‘I will sing,’ in Langdon's ‘Divine Harmony,’ 1774. 6. Six Anthems in Boyce's ‘Cathedral Music,’ 1849, viz. ‘Prepare ye the way,’ a 4; ‘Awake, put on,’ a 3; ‘The Ways of Sion,’ a 2; ‘Thy Beauty, O Israel,’ a 4; ‘Awake up, my Glory,’ a 3; ‘Blessed is he,’ a 3. Several of these anthems have also been republished in Novello's ‘Collections.’
The following remain in manuscript: 1. In Tudway's ‘Collections:’ ‘O praise God,’ a 3; ‘Behold how good,’ a 3; ‘I will sing a new Song,’ a 4; ‘How are the Mighty fallen!’ Morning and Evening Service in D (Harl. MSS. 7338, 7339). 2. ‘Open me the Gates,’ a 3; ‘Comfort ye’ (ascribed to Wise or Aldrich) (Addit. MS. 17840). 3. Bass part: ‘Have Pity on me;’ ‘By the Waters;’ ‘Thy Strength, O Sion’ (ib. 17784). 4. Alto part: ‘Christ rising again’ (ib.. 17820). 5. Organ part: ‘Arise, O Lord;’ ‘I will arise;’ ‘The Lord is my Shepherd,’ a 2 (ib. 30932). 6. ‘Catches’ (ib. 17481, 22099). 7. Song, with Chorus, ‘Justly now let's tribute pay’ (ib. 33234). 8. Service in E flat, at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. 9. ‘Gloria in excelsis,’ and ten Anthems, besides those published by Boyce, at Ely Cathedral. 10. Anthems in the Gloucester Cathedral Library. 11. ‘Christ being risen,’ composed by Wise for Easter, and for a long time in use instead of ‘Venite’ at Salisbury Cathedral. Other volumes of his church music are in the British Museum Additional MSS. 30933, 31344–5, 31404, and 31460; and of secular music in Additional MSS. 30382 and 31462.
[Hawkins's Hist. of Music, 2nd edit. ii. 719; Burney's Hist. of Music, iii. 454; Grove's Dict. of Music, iv. 334, 476; Old Cheque-book of the Chapel Royal, pp. 16, 129, 218; Bumpus's Organists and Composers, p. 270; Hoare's Wiltshire, vi. 634; Harris's Salisbury Epitaphs; P. C. C. Admon. Grants; Registers of Salisbury Cathedral, through the courtesy of the Rev. Precentor Carpenter.]
WISE, WILLIAM FURLONG (1784–1844), rear-admiral, son of George Furlong Wise of Woolston, Devonshire, by Jane, sister of Vice-admiral James Richard Dacres (1749–1810) and of Vice-admiral Sir Richard Dacres (1761–1837), was born at Woolston on 21 Aug. 1784. He entered the navy in February 1797 on board the Astræa frigate with his uncle Richard Dacres, and served, for the most part, with him, or with James Richard Dacres, on the home station, the coast of France, and in the West Indies, till promoted to be lieutenant of the Franchise at Jamaica on 1 May 1804. He continued in the Theseus and afterwards in the Hercule, flagships of James Richard Dacres, commander-in-chief at Jamaica, till promoted (1 Nov. 1805, confirmed 22 Feb. 1806) to be commander of the Drake, from which he was moved in April to the Elk; on 18 May 1806 he was posted to the Mediator, and invalided from her in July 1807. In November 1813 he commissioned the Granicus of thirty-six guns, which after nearly three years on the home station and the coast of Portugal was one of the ships with Lord Exmouth at the bombardment of Algiers on 27 Aug. 1816 [see Pellew, Edward, Viscount Exmouth], in which she took a part beyond what was expected from a frigate, and sustained a loss of sixteen killed and forty-two wounded. On 21 Sept. 1816 Wise was nominated a C.B. In January 1818 he was appointed to the Spartan, which he commanded on the home station and in the West Indies till 1821. He had no further service, but became a rear-admiral on 23 Nov. 1841, and died at his residence in Plymouth, after a week's illness, on 29 April 1844. He married, on 16 June 1810, Fanny, only daughter of William Grenfell.
[Marshall's Roy. Nav. Biogr. v. (suppl. pt. i.) 151; Gent. Mag. 1810 i. 586, 1844 ii. 208, 338; Service book in the Public Record Office.]
