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Robert Wingfield (politician, died 1596)

English Member of Parliament (died 1596)

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Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ29951784 ↗
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Robert Wingfield was a sixteenth century English landowner and puritan activist who served as member of parliament (MP) for Suffolk. He was the first son of Anthony Wingfield, who had also been MP for the constituency.

He married first Cicely, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, and was father of Anthony Wingfield (1554–1605), MP for Orford; and secondly Bridget, daughter of Sir John Spring of Cockfield and Hitcham, Suffolk, and widow of Thomas Fleetwood of The Vache, Buckinghamshire, Master of the Mint.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Wingfield (politician, died 1596)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.