Lewis Strange Wingfield (1842â€"1891) was an Irish traveller, actor,
writer, and painter.The third and youngest son of Richard Wingfield,
6th Viscount Powerscourt, by his wife, Lady Elizabeth Frances
Charlotte, eldest daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, he
was born on 25 February 1842, and educated at Eton College and Bonn
University. He was intended for the army, but gave up the career at
the request of his mother, after her second marriage to Frederick
Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry the Marchioness of Londonderry.
He then had many occupations.On 21 August 1865 Wingfield was at the
Haymarket Theatre Roderigo to the Othello of Ira Aldridge, the Iago of
Walter Montgomery, and the Desdemona of Madge Robertson. He had
previously played in the burlesque Ixion (F. C. Burnand). Reputed
adventures were going to The Derby in blackface, spending nights in
workhouses and pauper lodgings, and becoming an attendant in a lunatic
asylum and prison.During the Franco-Prussian War Wingfield went to
Paris, where he stayed through the siege, attending the wounded and
qualifying as a surgeon. During the siege he communicated by balloon
and otherwise with The Times, the Daily Telegraph, and other
newspapers. After returning to London he went back to Paris
immediately on hearing of the Paris commune, and remained there until
its suppression by French troops.
writer, and painter.The third and youngest son of Richard Wingfield,
6th Viscount Powerscourt, by his wife, Lady Elizabeth Frances
Charlotte, eldest daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, he
was born on 25 February 1842, and educated at Eton College and Bonn
University. He was intended for the army, but gave up the career at
the request of his mother, after her second marriage to Frederick
Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry the Marchioness of Londonderry.
He then had many occupations.On 21 August 1865 Wingfield was at the
Haymarket Theatre Roderigo to the Othello of Ira Aldridge, the Iago of
Walter Montgomery, and the Desdemona of Madge Robertson. He had
previously played in the burlesque Ixion (F. C. Burnand). Reputed
adventures were going to The Derby in blackface, spending nights in
workhouses and pauper lodgings, and becoming an attendant in a lunatic
asylum and prison.During the Franco-Prussian War Wingfield went to
Paris, where he stayed through the siege, attending the wounded and
qualifying as a surgeon. During the siege he communicated by balloon
and otherwise with The Times, the Daily Telegraph, and other
newspapers. After returning to London he went back to Paris
immediately on hearing of the Paris commune, and remained there until
its suppression by French troops.
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