Robert Wingfield was a sixteenth century English landowner and puritan activist who served as member of parliament (MP) for Suffolk.[1] He was the first son of Anthony Wingfield, who had also been MP for the constituency.[1] He married first Cicely, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, and was father of Anthony Wingfield (1554-1605), MP for Orford;[2] 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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  1. ^ a b "Wingfield, Sir Robert (d.1596), of Letheringham, Suff". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  2. ^ J.C.H., 'Wingfield, Anthony I (c.1554-1605), of Letheringham, Suff. and Goodwins Hoo, Suff.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1981), History of Parliament Online.


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