Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet (25 June 1861 – 29 January 1953) was a British general and administrator in Egypt, Iraq and the Sudan.

His father died when he was a year old, and the family, in straitened circumstances, moved to Jersey, where he was educated at St James's Collegiate School.

[2] He served in India and Aden from March 1881 to 1883, when he joined the 4th Battalion of the Egyptian Army[3] on its reorganisation by Sir Evelyn Wood with the brevet rank of major.

[4] After holding an appointment in England for a brief period as ADC to Wood, who was now General Officer Commanding Eastern District,[5] he rejoined the Egyptian Army in 1886[6] as assistant military secretary to Sir Francis Grenfell.

He translated into English Father Ohrwalder's narrative (Ten Years in the Mahdi's Camp, 1892) and Slatin's book (Fire and Sword in the Sudan; 1896).

[4] As director of military intelligence he served in the campaigns of 1896–1898 which resulted in the reconquest of the Sudan, including the engagement at Firket, the battles of the Atbara and Omdurman and the expedition to Fashoda.

[11] Wingate was in command of an expeditionary force which in November 1899 defeated the remnant of the Dervish host at the Umm Diwaykarat, Kordofan, the khalifa being among the slain.

In 1909, at the request of the British government, Wingate undertook a special mission to Somaliland to report on the military situation in connection with the proposed evacuation of the interior of the protectorate.

He was not a successful administrator in the very different political climate in that country, and was made a scapegoat for the riots incited by Saad Zaghlul and his party that spread across Egypt.

Angry at his treatment, Wingate refused to actually resign, even after he was officially replaced by Lord Allenby, and threatened to embarrass the British Government.

[1] He was the first cousin once removed to Orde Wingate, who led British commando units in Palestine, Sudan and Burma before and during the Second World War.