HIS FATHER'S BIOGRAPHER
Sir Reginald Wingate ranks high in seniority among British Consuls, says the -London "Daily Telegraph." Governor-General of the Sudan from 1899 to 1916. indeed, its virtual creator, he is 79. He has a good memory. He was present at. the Cairo railway station when General Gordon left on his ill-fated journey to Khartoum. I have heard him recount it as if it happened yesterday. Sir Reginald has also kept diaries and been meticulous in preserving papers and correspondence., I hear that his son and heir. Mr. Ronald Wingate, with these various aids has been acting as his father's biographer. His book is finished, but it will not be published till six months after the war is over. Mr. Wingate is now working in the Ministry of Economic Warfare. He is an Indian civil servant who has been in personal contact ...with, five Viceroys,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 12
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146HIS FATHER'S BIOGRAPHER Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 12
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