Francis Wingfield or Wingfeild (born September 1628) was a Stamford lawyer in the mid-seventeenth century.
[2] According to traditional tales, Frances Wingfield, his mother, entertained Oliver Cromwell and saved the town of Stamford from destruction, by allowing the gates to be closed.
Mr. Turner reports from the Committee for Privileges and Elections, touching the double Return for the Borough of Stamford in the County of Lyncoln, that, upon Examination of the Fact, it appeared to the Committee that Francis Wingfeild is duly chosen to serve in this Parliament for the said Borough, and ought to sit.
In January 1662 he bought Barnwell House in Clipshill, Stamford from William Wolfe, then occupied by Elizabeth Cromwell, widow.
[4] At the same time he bought Hills Orchard, a half acre plot presumably as a garden to Barnwell House, from John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter.