He was stationed at Kolaba, visited Kumta, Kanara, Deolali, and Chittore, and studied Hindustani (Urdu) and Arabic. Wingate's Indian experience was brief, and there is little evidence that it made a lasting impression. In March 1881 he left England for his first posting, in India (see Wingate 1955 Daly 1997). July 1880 was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. In January 1879 Reginald (he seems never to have been known as Francis) entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in Straitened circumstances, settled with her children in Jersey, where she died in 1877. Upon his father's death in 1862 Bessie Wingate, in Transliteration: Place names have generally been left in the form which was accepted during the Condominium era, but the spelling of all personal namesĪnd nouns has been standardised according to the Library of Congress transliteration scheme.įrancis Reginald Wingate was born on 25 June 1861, the last of eleven children of Bessie Turner and Andrew Wingate, a textile merchant of Glasgow. Language: English Amharic Arabic German Italian Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special CollectionsĬreated by: Wingate, General Sir Francis Reginald Title: Wingate, General Sir Francis Reginald The Book of Devotion (al-Ratib) of the Mahdi Jackson, Osman Digna, with an introduction by Sir Reginald Wingate, Bt. Rudolf Carl von Slatin, Fire and sword in the Sudan: a personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895, tr. Joseph Ohrwalder, Ten years' captivity in the Mahdi's camp / from the original manuscripts of J. Present time., (London : Macmillan and Co., 1891) Sir Reginald Wingate, Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan: being an account of the rise and progress of Mahdiism, and of subsequent events in the Sudan to the Papers relating to Egyptian Rulers, 1886-1918 Papers relating to the Egyptian Capitulations Commission
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