Catherine Wingate
Dame Catherine Leslie Wingate DBE was a British humanitarian.
The daughter of Royal Navy Captain Joseph Rundle and his wife, Renira Catherine, her brother was General Sir Leslie Rundle. On 18 June 1888, she married Reginald Wingate, a Royal Artillery officer. They had three children: Ronald Evelyn Leslie Wingate, Malcolm Roy Wingate, and Victoria Alexandrina Catherine Wingate. General Sir Reginald Wingate was Governor-General of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army from 1899 and 1916 and High Commissioner of Egypt from 1917-19.
During the First World War Lady Wingate was president of the Cairo and Alexandria Red Cross Committee and of the Empire Nurses' Red Cross Clubs in the two cities, and for these services she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1920 civilian war honours.
