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

WINGFIELD, JOHN, eldest son of Rowland Wingfield (qv); b. 18 Jul 1769; adm. 14 Jan 1780; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Nov 1787; BA 1793; Cornet, 4th Dragoons 18 Nov 1788; Lieut., 26 Feb 1793; Capt., 1 Mar 1794; Maj., 2 Mar 1794; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 3 May 1796; retd. 28 Apr 1808; DL JP Shropshire, High Sheriff 1814; m. 17 Oct 1811 Mary Anne, only dau. of Rev. John Rocke, Rector of Clungunford, Shropshire; d. 31 Aug 1862.

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, JAMES, brother of William Wingfield (qv); b. 14 Feb 1767; adm. 2 Apr 1777; in school lists 1781; articled to solicitor 9 May 1782; adm. attorney 26 Nov 1787; practised in Great Marlborough Street, London (still in Law List 1822); m.; d. 1828 (will proved PCC 5 Apr 1828, he of St. James, Westminster).

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.

WINGFIELD, CHARLES, son of Rowland Wingfield (qv); b. 24 Aug 1770; adm. 14 Jan 1780; in school lists 1786; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Nov 1787, readm. 29 Apr 1794, matr. 1787; BA 1796; MA 1799; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Nov 1789; ordained; Vicar of Llanllwchairn, Montgomeryshire, from 1800; m. 27 Jan 1829 Emma, fourth dau. of Richard Jenkins, Bicton, Shropshire; d. 1 May 1850.

Wingfield, Charles Lee; third son of John Muxloe Wingfield, Tickencote, Rutland, and Catherine Anne Harriet, dau. of Harry Lancelot Lee, Coton Hall, Shropshire ; bapt.Tickencote, Rutland 11 Sep 1832 (IGI) ; ed.Uppingham Sch. and Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 17 Apr 1850, aged 17 ; BA 1854 ; MA 1857 ; Fellow of All Souls Coll. 1855-71, Chaplain 1858-64 ; Proctor 1869 ; Assistant Master (Classics) 1856-60 ; the last House Master of Scott’s ; ordained deacon 1858, priest 1859 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Welwyn, Herts., 1870-96 ; Rural Dean, Welwyn 1871-95 ; Hon.Canon, St.Albans 1877 ; m. 1 Oct 1874 Mary Charlotte, dau. of Col.Frederick Rodolph Blake CB, 33rd Foot ; d. 2 Jul 1897.

WINGFIELD, SIR CHARLES JOHN, fifth son of William Wingfield KC MP (afterwards Wingfield-Baker), Orsett Hall, Essex, barrister, Master in Chancery, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Mills MP, Bisterne, Hampshire; half-brother of George Digby Wingfield-Digby (qv); b. 15 Apr 1820; adm. 26 May 1834; at Haileybury Coll. 1837-9; Writer, EICS Bengal 1839; arrived in India 29 Mar 1840; Assistant to Magistrate and Commissioner, Delhi 1841; Assistant Commissioner, Delhi 1843-5; Joint Magistrate, Muzaffarnagar 1845-50; Commissioner, Oudh 1856; Chief Commissioner, Oudh 1859-66; retired 1866; MP (Liberal) Gravesend 1868-74; CB 18 May 1860; KCSI 25 May 1866; d. 27 Jan 1892.