Captain Edward Wingfield
(1823-1865)

Volume 1, page 216, sitting number 1061.

[The sitter is identified as the 'Hon. R. Wingfield' in the Silvy daybooks but the printed index to all thirteen volumes identifies him as 'Capt. E. Wingfield.' The Honourable Maurice Richard Wingfield, second son of the 6th Viscount Powerscourt, was born in 1839 and would only have been 21 years old in 1860. This is therefore more likely to be Captain Edward ffolliott Wingfield, who was born in 1823 and would have been about 37 years old when this portrait was taken.]

Born in Fulham on 6 August 1823, Edward ffolliott Wingfield was the son of Reverend the Honourable Edward Wingfield, a younger son of Richard Wingfield, 4th Viscount Powerscourt. His mother was Louisa Joan née Jocelyn, a granddaughter of the 1st Earl of Roden. 

Edward ffolliott Wingfield began his military career as an Ensign in the 56th Foot but transferred to the 2nd Life Guards in 1845. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant in 1848 and Captain in 1854. He retired from the Army in 1862. 

On 1 March 1848 he married the Honourable Frances Emily Rice-Trevor, eldest daughter of George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor. Their marriage produced five children before the Honourable Mrs Wingfield's early death, aged only 37, on 26 November 1863. 

The couple and their five children appear on the 1861 census living in a house in the Upper Cloisters, within the grounds of Windsor Castle. Also present on the night of the census were a governess and ten live-in servants, including a butler, a footman, two nurses and a nursery maid. 

Captain Edward ffolliott Wingfield died, aged 42, on 26 September 1865 at Maids Moreton Lodge near Buckingham. He left an estate valued at £7000.