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Sir F. R. (Francis Reginald) Wingate
1861–1953
A soldier-administrator remembered as "Wingate of the Sudan," he played a major part in the conquest and government of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan before later serving as British High Commissioner in Egypt. His career sits at the heart of late Victorian and First World War imperial history.
1 Audiobook
Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892
by Josef Ohrwalder, Sir F. R. (Francis Reginald) Wingate
About the author
Born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, on 25 June 1861, Francis Reginald Wingate trained at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and joined the Royal Artillery. He served in India and then in northeast Africa, where his work in intelligence and administration helped make his name during the British campaigns in the Sudan.
Wingate succeeded Lord Kitchener as Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1899 and became closely associated with the territory's early colonial administration, earning the nickname "Wingate of the Sudan." Later, during the First World War, he served as British High Commissioner in Egypt from 1917 to 1919.
He died on 29 January 1953. Modern readers usually encounter Wingate as a significant figure in the history of British rule in Sudan and Egypt, and as one of the empire's most prominent soldier-administrators of his generation.