Fitzgerald Wintour

Fitzgerald Wintour
Personal details
Born30 December 1860
Hawerby, Lincolnshire, England[1]
Died18 June 1949 (aged 88)
Poole, Dorset, England
SpouseAlice Jane Blanche Foster
ChildrenCharles Wintour
Cordelia James, Baroness James of Rusholme
Parent(s)Fitzgerald Wintour
Isabel Milnes Gaskell
RelativesDame Anna Wintour (granddaughter)
Patrick Wintour (grandson)
OccupationMilitary officer
AwardsOrder of the British Empire
Order of the Bath
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch/service British Army
Years of service1880-1918
RankMajor-general
CommandsQueen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Royal Norfolk Regiment
Battles/warsTochi Expedition
Mahdist War
Anglo-Egyptian War
Second Boer War
Western Front

Major-General Fitzgerald Wintour CB CBE (30 December 1860 – 18 June 1949) was a British military officer who served in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and the Royal Norfolk Regiment. Wintour was commissioned in the British Army in 1880 and fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War, the Mahdist War, the Tochi Expedition, the Second Boer War, and in World War I. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his military service. Wintour was the father of newspaper editor Charles Wintour and of Cordelia James, Baroness James of Rusholme. He was the grandfather of Dame Anna Wintour and Patrick Wintour.