Sir Edward Wingfield KCB (6 March 1834 – 5 March 1910), was a British barrister and civil servant who held the position of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1897 to 1900.
[1][2] Born in Bath, Somerset, Wingfield was the fourth son of John Muxloe Wingfield JP DL (1790–1869) and Catherine Anne Harriett Lee (1798–1863), of Tickencote Hall, Rutland.
[1][2] Following his retirement, he moved to Mulbarton Hall in Norfolk, the residence of his aunt, Emma Dorinda Wingfield (1814–1906).
On her death he inherited the Hall and commissioned the Norwich architect Edward Boardman to add a wing in 1907.
[6] He died at Mulbarton Hall on 5 March 1910 at the age of 75 and is buried with his wife in the churchyard of St Peter's, Tickencote.