Francis Reginald Wingate was born at Broadfield, Renfrewshire, on 25 June 1861. He was educated at St. James's Collegiate School and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He served with the Royal Artillery in India and Aden, and joined the Egyptian Army in 1883. He was Commandant of the Cholera Hospital, acted as aide-de-camp to General Sir Evelyn Wood during the Nile Expedition and in the Bayuda desert, 1884-1885, acted as Governor of the Red Sea littoral, was a member of a special mission to Emperor Menelek of Ethiopia, 1897, at the Battle of Khartoum and the Expedition to Fashoda, and in command of operations resulting in the death of Khalifa. During the First World War he organised numerous expeditions for the pacification of the Sudan, including the reconquest of Darfur. His published work includes Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan (1891), and Ten year's captivity in the Mahdi's camp (1891). General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate died on 28 January 1953.
From the guide to the Material relating to General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate (1861-1953), 1895, (Edinburgh University Library)
