32 Facts About Reginald Wingate

Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet was a British general and administrator in Egypt, Iraq and the Sudan.

Reginald Wingate's father died when he was a year old, and the family, in straitened circumstances, moved to Jersey, where he was educated at St James's Collegiate School.

Reginald Wingate entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 27 July 1880.

Reginald Wingate served in India and Aden from March 1881 to 1883, when he joined the 4th Battalion of the Egyptian Army on its reorganisation by Sir Evelyn Wood with the brevet rank of major.

Reginald Wingate took part in the operations on the Sudan frontier in 1889, including the engagement at Toski and in the further operations in 1891, being present at the capture of Tokar.

Reginald Wingate was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel on 18 November 1896.

Reginald Wingate made the arrangements which led to the escape of Slatin Pasha in 1895.

Reginald Wingate translated into English Father Ohrwalder's narrative and Slatin's book.

Reginald Wingate was again Mentioned in despatches for this work.

Reginald Wingate briefly went to Abyssinia as second in command of the Rennell Rodd mission.

Reginald Wingate was in command of an expeditionary force which in November 1899 defeated the remnant of the Dervish host at the Umm Diwaykarat, Kordofan, the khalifa being among the slain.

Reginald Wingate's daughter who was named Victoria Alexandrina Catherine Wingate was born the day after the victory against the Khalifa.

Reginald Wingate's baptism took place in January 1900 at All Saints' Church, Cairo.

In December 1899, on Lord Kitchener being summoned to South Africa, Sir Reginald Wingate succeeded him as Governor-General of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, being promoted to local major general on 22 December 1899.

In 1909, at the request of the British government, Reginald Wingate undertook a special mission to Somaliland to report on the military situation in connection with the proposed evacuation of the interior of the protectorate.

In 1917, Reginald Wingate succeeded Sir Henry McMahon as High Commissioner in Egypt, a post he held until 1919.

Reginald Wingate was not a successful administrator in the very different political climate in that country, and was made a scapegoat for the riots incited by Saad Zaghlul and his party that spread across Egypt.

Angry at his treatment, Reginald Wingate refused to actually resign, even after he was officially replaced by Lord Allenby, and threatened to embarrass the British Government.

Reginald Wingate was refused a peerage or another appointment, although he was created a baronet in the 1920 King's Birthday Honours, gazetted as a Baronet, of Dunbar, in the County of Haddington, and of Port Sudan.

Reginald Wingate never held another public or military office, retiring from the Army on 1 February 1922, but became a director of a number of companies.

Reginald Wingate married Catherine Rundle on 18 June 1888.

Reginald Wingate was the first cousin once removed to Orde Wingate, who led British commando units in Palestine, Sudan and Burma before and during the Second World War.

Reginald Wingate was succeeded in his baronetcy by his son Ronald Reginald Wingate.

Reginald Wingate is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Trachylepis wingati, which is endemic to Ethiopia and Sudan.

Reginald Wingate was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's 1895 Birthday Honours.

Reginald Wingate was awarded the Distinguished Service Order Reginald Wingate was awarded the Star of Ethiopia 2nd Class.

Reginald Wingate was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 13 March 1900, Reginald Wingate was awarded the Order of Osmanieh 2nd Class.

Reginald Wingate was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George on 11 November 1898.

Reginald Wingate was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order on 17 January 1912, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1914 King's Birthday Honours, and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours.

Reginald Wingate was made Honorary Colonel of the 7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment on 16 December 1914, and a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery on 17 May 1917.

Reginald Wingate was made a Knight of the Venerable Order of St John in 1919.

Reginald Wingate was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of East Lothian.