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Catherine Wingate

British humanitarian (1858–1946) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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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 General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet, a Royal Artillery officer at the time.

They had five children together:

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).

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]

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