Herbert Louis Wild (2 July 1865 – 28 March 1940) was a bishop in the Church of England.

Family

He was the son of Rev. R. L. Wild, rector of

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. He married Helen Christian Severn in 1903 and they had four sons and a daughter.

Education

He was educated at

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and Exeter College, Oxford where he graduated in 1886. He was ordained deacon in the Church of England in 1895.

Career

He became Vice-Principal and Chaplain of St Edmund Hall, Oxford until 1903 when he became assistant curate at

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. In 1904 he was appointed vicar of

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until 1909 when he returned to Oxford to be Vicar of St. Giles. He was appointed

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in 1913 and nominated Bishop of Newcastle on 16 October 1915, being consecrated on 30 November. It appears that the Prime Minister

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, offered him the post after it had been rejected by

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, headmaster of Rugby School and a future Bishop of Liverpool. Wild was strongly in favour of continuing the First World War against Germany despite the heavy casualties and talk of a peace treaty. He argued that German atrocities against civilians made peace proposals unwise. 'Peace with an undefeated militarist Germany can only mean war and the endless threat of war for all time'. Wild was also keen to stress that post-War memorials should be 'for rich and poor alike', for everyone had fought for the same cause and had died as comrades together.Op cit, December 1917. He held that post until 1 August 1927 when he resigned due to poor health.

Sources

*The Times, 30 March 1940

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wild, Herbert Louis 1865 births 1940 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Archdeacons of Nottingham Bishops of Newcastle 20th-century Church of England bishops People from Herstmonceux