Edward Wingfield (civil servant)
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Sir Edward Wingfield KCB (6 March 1834 – 5 March 1910), was a British barrister and civil servant who held the position of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1897 to 1900.[1][2]
Born in Bath, Somerset, Wingfield was the fourth son of John Muxloe Wingfield JP DL (1790–1869) and Catherine Anne Harriett Lee (1798–1863), of Tickencote Hall, Rutland. The Hall had been in the Wingfield family since 1594.[3]
He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.[1][2][4]
In 1872 he married Mary Georgina Sheringham (1849–1918), daughter of the Ven. John Sheringham, later Archdeacon of Gloucester.