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He was the third son of Richard Wingfield of Wantisden in Suffolk, and Mary, daughter and coheiress of John Hardwick of Derby, and the sister of Bess of Hardwick. His brother Anthony Wingfield was reader in Greek to Elizabeth I of England. He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Lichfield in 1593. [1]
Wingfield served in the Bengal Civil Service from 1840 to 1866. [5] He was a proponent of Charles Canning's clemency policy during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. [6] While in the BCS, he held several offices including Commissioner of Gorakhpur, which is the post he held when appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath on 18 May 1860, [7] and Vice-Chairman of the East India Association's ...
From the coronation of Henry IV in 1399, the full ceremonies were restricted to major royal occasions, such as coronations, investitures of the Prince of Wales or royal dukes, and royal weddings, [19] and the knights so created became known as Knights of the Bath. [16] Knights Bachelor continued to be created with the simpler form of ceremony ...
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath for applicable appointments after 1815. There are three categories for Knights of the (Order of the) Bath, Category:Knights of the Bath – These were special knighthoods conferred on important Royal occasions such as coronations, a practice which had died after the reign of Charles II. These ...
Born in about 1403, he was the son of Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1409) by his wife Elizabeth Russell, daughter of Sir John Russell (d.1405), of Strensham in Worcestershire and his first wife Agnes. The elder Robert was son of Sir John Wingfield and his wife Margaret Hastings (died 1397), [4] later second wife of Russell. As guardian of her son ...
Lieutenant-General John Cope: died 1760 Field Marshal Sir John Ligonier: died 28 April 1770 28 May 1744: Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam: died 25 April 1776 Sir Charles Hanbury Williams: died 2 November 1759 Henry Calthorpe: Thomas Whitmore: Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet: died 17 February 1770 29 May 1747: Rear-Admiral Sir ...
He was born at Letheringham, Suffolk to Sir John Wingfield (c. 1428 – 10 May 1481) and his wife Elizabeth FitzLewis (c. 1431–1497) who was born in West Horndon, Essex, to John FitzLewis and Anne Montague. He was the eleventh of twelve sons; and brother to Humphrey Wingfield. His paternal grandparents were Sir Robert Wingfield and Elizabeth ...
Born about 1464, he was the seventh son of Sir John Wingfield (1428–1481) of Letheringham, Suffolk, a member of the Privy Council of Edward IV, and Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and Elizabeth Fitzlewis (d.1500), daughter of Sir John Fitzlewis of West Horndon, Essex, by Anne Montacute. [1] Humphrey Wingfield and Richard Wingfield were his ...