John Wild (cricketer, born 1915): Difference between revisions

Wild was born at [[Wallasey]] in April 1915. He was educated at [[Taunton School]],<ref name="TAU">{{cite web|url=https://taunton.alumni-online.com/StaticFiles/TauntonWIT_0000000452.pdf|title=Obituary|publisher=www.taunton.alumni-online.com|accessdate=2022-01-15}}</ref> before maltriculatingmatriculating to [[King's College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Cambridge University List of Members for the Year 1998|date=1998|page=850|url=https://wwwbooks.google.co.ukcom/books/edition/Cambridge_University_List_of_Members/?id=MN3jAAAAMAAJ|language=en}}</ref> While studying at Cambridge, he played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club]] in 1938, making eleven appearances.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33860/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by John Wild|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-01-15|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Playing primarily as a [[spin bowling|spin bowler]] in the Cambridge side, Wild took 29 wickets in his eleven matches at a [[bowling average]] of 36.10; he took two [[five wicket haul]]s, with best figures of six for 125.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33860/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by John Wild|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-01-15|url-access=subscription}}</ref> As a batsman, he scored 193 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 11.35, with a highest score of 34.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33860/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by John Wild|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-01-15|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

After graduating from Cambridge, Wild joined the [[Colonial Service]] in the [[Protectorate of Uganda]] in 1938.<ref name="TAU" /> He was commissioned into the [[British Army]] as a [[Second_lieutenantSecond lieutenant#United_Kingdom_and_other_Commonwealth_countriesUnited Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in September 1943.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36680|date=29 August 1944|page=4059|supp=y}}</ref> He resumed his colonial service following the war, becoming the chairman of the [[Uganda_Legislative_CouncilUganda Legislative Council#Committee_on_selfCommittee on self-government_set_up_under_John_Vernon_Wildgovernment set up under John Vernon Wild|Ugandan Committee on Self-Government]] in 1959, which came to be known as the Wild Committee.<ref name="TAU" /> He was made an officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in the [[1955 Birthday Honours]] in recognition of his services in Uganda,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40497|date=3 June 1955|page=3282|supp=y}}</ref> and was later made a companion to the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] in the [[1960 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=42051|date=3 June 1960|page=3976|supp=y}}</ref> While in Uganda, Wild wrote three books on the country and became fluent in the [[Acholi dialect]].<ref name="TAU" /> He left the Colonial Service in 1960 and returned to England, where he took up a post teaching maths at [[Hele's School, Exeter]]. He left there in 1971 to become a maths lecturer at [[Exeter College, Exeter|Exeter College]], where he remained until 1976.<ref name="TAU" />

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