Catherine Wingate

Dame Catherine Leslie Wingate, DBE (née Rundle; 26 October 1858 – 10 June 1946), was a British humanitarian and social activist who served as President of the Cairo and Alexandria Red Cross committees during the First World War.

The daughter of Royal Navy Captain Joseph Sparkhall Rundle and his wife, Renira Catherine (née Leslie), her brother was General Sir Leslie Rundle. On 18 June 1888, she married Sir Reginald Wingate, a Royal Artillery officer at the time.

The couple had four children:

• Sir Ronald Evelyn Leslie Wingate, 2nd Baronet (30 September 1889 – 31 August 1978)

• Graham Andrew Leslie Wingate (27 August 1892 – 11 September 1892)

• Malcolm Roy Wingate (28 August 1893 – 21 March 1918)

• Lucy Elizabeth Leslie Wingate (1896-1978)

• Victoria Alexandrina Catherine Wingate (1899 – 1989)

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.^[1]

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