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=Childhood and education=
Orde was born Feb. 26, 1903 at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nainital Nainital], in Uttarakhand, [[India]]. Nainital is in the Kumaon foothills of the outer Himalayas, located 177 miles from the state capital Dehradun, and 214 miles from New Delhi, the capital of India. Most of Orde's childhood was spent in [[England]]. His parents were: ==Parents==* Col. George Wingate (b. 1852Kensington, Middlesex, Eng. -d. 1936Godalming, Surrey, [[England|Eng.]]) . He retired from the British Indian Army in 1905, with honors including the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Indian_Empire Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire] (CIE). Credited as the founder of Central Asia Mission. * Mary Ethel Stanley Browne Wingate (b. 1867Woolwich, Kent, Eng. -d. 1943Woking, Surrey, Eng.) ==Grandparents=====Paternal===* Rev. William Wingate (b. 1808 Glasgow, Scot. - d. 1899 Paddington, London, Eng.). According to [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182861381/william-wingate FindAGrave] he was the eldest son of Andrew and Margaret C. (Miller) Wingate. First wife was Janet "Jessie" Buchanan Wingate (1813-1838). He was educated at the University of Glasgow, and at the age of 21, he became partner in his father's mercantile business. After the death of his first wife, when he was the age of 30, he became an elder of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s_Tron_Church St. George's Tron Parish] of the Church of Scotland, in Glasgow, whose minister, Dr. Robert Buchanan, was his cousin. Influenced by a friend, Robert Wodrow, a member of the Jewish Mission Committee, he became interested in Judaism, traveling to Berlin to study German and Hebrew. In 1842, he joined pioneer missionaries in Budapest. In 1843, he became a member of the Free Church, and was ordained that same year, and served in Jassy, Hungary until Jan. 1852 when the Austrian government expelled all missionaries. In latter years, he labored in London as an independent, unsalaried missionary to the Jews. His house became a centre of Jewish mission influence, and was a member of many institutions and committees connected with leading them to Christ worldwide. * Margaret Wallace Torrance Wingate (b. 1824 Kilmarnock, Ayr, Scot. - d. 1909 Christchurch, Dorset, Eng.), daughter of James Torrance (b. 1781 Ayrshire, Scot.), who was a cotton hand loom weaver in 1841 in Greenholm. ===Maternal===* Capt. Charles Orde Browne(b. 1838 Uley, Gloucester, Eng. - d. 1900 Peers Court, Dursley, Gloucester, Eng.). Retired from the military. Son of Benjamin Chapman Browne (b. 1798 Ireland - d. 1853 Nunnykirk, Northumberland, Eng.) & Mary Ann Lloyd Baker Browne (b. 1803 Fulham, London, Eng. - d. 1882 Stouts Hill, Gloucester, Eng.)* First wife (1861): Wilhelmina Frances Reeves Browne (b. 1838 Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland - d. 1863 London, Eng.), daughter of Rich Reeves.* Second wife: Anna Maria Mitchell Browne (b. 1844 Leicester, Eng. - d. 1917 Eastbourne, Sussex, Eng.), daughter of George Monck Berkeley Mitchell (b. 1806 Rutland, East Midlands, Eng. - d. 1868 Woolwich, Kent, Eng.) & Maria Bacon Stanley Mitchell (b. 1806 Dublin, Ireland - d. 1865 Woolwich, Kent, Eng.). ** George Mitchell's father, George Berkeley Mitchell served as a licensed curate of Mereworth Parish Church in spite of not having a degree. He also served as a curate at Tudeley & Bromley House, vicar @ All Saints & then St. Mary's, both at Leicester. In 1818, he served as a chaplain to Frederick, the Duke of York. ==Siblings==Orde had six siblings:* Rachel Orde Wingate (b. 1901 Murra, India - d. 1953 Woking, Surrey, Eng.) She never married, served as a linguist and missionary to western Asia. * Sybil Douglas Wingate (b. 1902 Nainital, India - d. 1993 Camden, London, Eng.)* Monica Miller Wingate* Constance Carrick Wingate* George Nigel F. Wingate* William Grant Wingate, QC
In 1916, his family moved to Godalming, where Orde attended days at a school called Charterhouse.
=Marriage=