Sir Charles John FitzRoy Rhys Wingfield KCMG (18 February 1877 – 26 March 1960) was a British diplomat who was envoy to several countries.
Charles Wingfield was educated at Charterhouse and wished to join the Army (like his father and three brothers) but was prevented by poor health.
He did join a militia battalion of the Royal Fusiliers in 1895,[1] promoted to captain in 1898, but as he was not allowed to serve in the South African War, he left the army in 1901 to join the Diplomatic Service as an attaché.
[6] In 1905 Charles Wingfield married Lucy Evelyn, elder daughter of Sir Edmund Fane, also a diplomat;[7] later that year her sister Etheldred Constantia Fane married another diplomat, Horace Rumbold.
Charles Wingfield was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1927 Birthday Honours and knighted in the same order in the 1933 New Year Honours.