[1] Wingfield was educated at Freiburg University and the London School of Economics.

[2] She was the niece of the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Charles McCurdy.

Her granddaughter is Carita Ogden, who was a Liberal Democrat Councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth.

Her term of office coincided with the time of the revelations about party leader, Jeremy Thorpe's private life and his subsequent resignation.

She also stood four times for parliament; for Wokingham in 1964 and 1966, at the 1967 Walthamstow West by-election and for Chippenham in 1970.