Catherine Wingate

Catherine Wingate

Dame Catherine Leslie Wingate DBE (26 October 1858–10 June 1946), née Catherine Leslie Rundle, was a British humanitarian.

She was the daughter of a Royal Navy Captain and the sister of General Sir Leslie Rundle. On 18 June 1888 she married Reginald Wingate, a Royal Artillery officer. They had three children.

General Sir Reginald Wingate was Governor-General of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army from 1899 and 1916 and High Commissioner of Egypt from 1917 to 1919. During the First World War Lady Wingate was president of the Cairo and Alexandria Red Cross Committee and of the Empire Nurses' Red Cross Clubs in the two cities, and for these services she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours.

References

*Obituary, "The Times", 11 June 1946
*Biography of Sir Reginald Wingate, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"


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