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WINGFIELD, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1578, adm. scholar 1579, adm. Mich. 1578.

WINGFIELD, JOHN HOPE, eldest son of John Wingfield (adm. 1770, qv); b. 11 Nov 1810; adm. 27 Jun 1821 (G); Ensign, 15th Foot 17 May 1831; Lieut., 4 Oct 1833; Capt., 18 Jan 1839; Maj., 11 Nov 1851; Lieut. -Col., 19 Feb 1858; Col., East Yorks. Regt., 28 Jun 1862; Major-Gen., 28 Jun 1868; Lieut. -Gen., 19 May 1880; retd. 1 Jul 1881, with hon. rank of Gen.; d. 3 Feb 1890.

WINGFIELD, HENRY COLSELL, son of James Wingfield (qv); b. 10 Aug 1805; adm. 22 Apr 1816 (Packharness'); articled to his father 2 Feb 1821; adm. attorney, King’s Bench 1 May 1826; practised Great Marlborough Street, London; m. 9 Oct 1828 Jane Nicholls (IGI).

WINGFIELD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, son of John Wingfield (adm. 1770, qv); b. 22 Dec 1818; adm. 9 Sep 1831 (G); adm. Gray’s Inn 21 Apr 1835, called to bar 18 Nov 1840; d. 14 May 1844.

Wingate, Peter Charles Fenton, brother of Michael Melvill Fenton Wingate (qv); b. 2 June 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (R); left Dec. 1928; St Mary's Hosp. Med. Sch., MB BS 1937; RAMC 1939-46 (Maj.), served India and Iraq; gen. med. practice Kensington 1946-78; m. 17 Nov. 1945 Pamela Josephine, d. of Joseph B. Waters, stockbroker, and widow of Sqdn Ldr J. G. Walker RAFVR; d. 31 Mar. 2006.

Wingate, Michael Melvill Fenton, son of Col. Basil Fenton Wingate DSO RAMC, and Dorothy Rose, d. of Charles Henderson of Flax Bourton, Gloucs.; b. 7 Oct. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (R); left Apr. 1926; an architect, ARIBA 1932; practised in London; RAFVR (A & SD) 1940-5 (flt Lieut.), despatches June 1943; m. 20 Sept. 1941 Doreen, d. of Rev. Basil Le Fleming, Vicar of Gt Thurlow, Suffolk; d. 5 Oct. 1955.

WINDSOR, HON. DIXIE, second son of Thomas Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth PC, and his second wife Ursula, youngest dau. of Sir Thomas Widdrington, Kt, Sherburn Grange, Northumberland; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1688; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1691, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1691, aged 17, scholar 8 Apr 1692, matr. 1691; 7th in “ordo” 1694/5; BA 1694/5; MA 1698; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1697, Major Fellow 6 May 1698 – c. 1706; MP Cambridge University 1705-27; Storekeeper of the Ordnance Office 28 Jun 1712 – Mar 1717; Busby Trustee 8 Mar 1711/2; m. Dorothy, sister of Bertram Stote (qv); d. 20 Oct 1743.

Winckworth, William Norman, brother of Lewis Herbert Winckworth (q.v.); b. Feb. 9, 1870; adm. Sept. 16, 1884 (G); left April 1888; played football (Assoc.) for England against Wales 1892, and against Ireland 1893; in business in Calcutta 1894-1914; joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers in Nov. 1914; served in France in Great War I; m. Nov. 2, 1916, Mary Russell, only daughter of John Morrice Watson, of Dundee; d. Nov. 9, 1941.

WINCKWORTH, WADHAM BRUCE, brother of Lewis Herbert Winckworth (qv); b. 22 Nov 1868; adm. 31 May 1883 (G); left Aug 1886; Westminster Hospital; MRCS and LRCP 1893; practised at Taunton, Somerset; m. 30 Apr 1908 Dorothy Frances, eldest dau. of Edwin Hellard, Stogumber, Somerset, solicitor.