Later Life and Publications
After the war, Wingate served on the British delegation to the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold and in 1947, he became the British delegate on the Commission. Wingate retired from the Commission in 1958, after it had completed most of its work. Shortly after leaving the Tripartite Commission, Wingate was named a Companion in The Most Honourable Order of the Bath in the New Year's list of 1959. Wingate also entered the world of business, serving on the board of the Imperial Continental Gas Association from 1953 until 1966.
In his later life, Wingate also wrote several books, beginning with Wingate of the Sudan, a biography of his father published in 1955. Next, Wingate wrote his own memoirs, Not in the Limelight, published in 1959. Finally, in 1970, he wrote Lord Ismay, a biography of Hastings Ismay.
Wingate of the Sudan was a fairly short biography, primarily based on private correspondence and diaries, to which Wingate naturally had access. Writing in the Middle East Journal, Muhammad Sabry called the book "a real contribution to African history," applauding Wingate's style an accuracy.
Wingate named his memoirs, Not in the Limelight, as a reference to his own career, perpetually around significant events but rarely playing a central role in them. Olaf Caroe wrote that the book was "engaging" with "flashes of shrewdness" and "a sense of wit". Caroe and others also praised the various intriguing details which Wingate revealed about both colonial India and the Second World War, for example Wingate's revelations about the Treaty of Seeb.
Wingate's final book, Lord Ismay: A Biography was released in 1970. The book was "an adulatory biography" which made Wingate's personal respect for Ismay quite clear. As such, the book stood in contrast to Ismay's own memoirs which were "modest and discreet." The book was well received, and Brian Porter wrote in International Affairs that it was a "welcome contribution to recent history."
Wingate died on August 31, 1978 at the age of 88.
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Lionel Berkeley Holt Haworth |
Consul to Oman 17 October 1919 – 3 March 1920 |
Succeeded by M.J. Gazdar |
| Preceded by M.J. Gazdar |
Consul to Oman 11 April 1920 – October 1921 |
Succeeded by Maitland Easten Rae |
| Preceded by Maitland Easten Rae |
Consul to Oman February 1923 – September 1923 |
Succeeded by Reginald Graham Hinde |
| Preceded by Alexander Norman Ley Cater |
Chief Commissioner of Balochistan 1936–1937 |
Succeeded by Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons |
| Preceded by Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons |
Chief Commissioner of Balochistan 1937 |
Succeeded by Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe |
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