), one of a number of figures from the same family of his period, was an English scholar and Member of Parliament, known as reader in Greek to Queen Elizabeth I.
On 16 March 1581 he was elected public orator at Cambridge, and in 1582 he accompanied Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, on his embassy to Denmark.
On 21 March 1589 he was granted leave of absence by his university on going abroad in the Queen's service, and on condition that he supplied a deputy public orator; this post he resigned on 25 September 1589.
On 19 January 1593 the Archbishop of York wrote to the Earl of Shrewsbury asking him to ensure that Wingfield was returned to parliament for one of the towns belonging to the see, and in the following month he was elected for Ripon.
He wrote a well-known epigram on "The Peer Content", intended for Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury.