General William Wylde CB (12 March 1788Sir Bernard Burke. ''A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain'' – 14 April 1877) was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior Ceremonial Post in the Royal Artillery after the

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Military career

Wylde was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1803 and rose through the officer ranks to become a

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in 1863. In the First Carlist War, he was British Commissioner to the Christinist Army, and played a significant role as artilleryman in relieving the siege of Bilbao by Carlist forces. He was made Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery in 1863 and promoted to full General in 1866, and then held the position of Master Gunner, St James's Park from 1868. He was also a

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to the Prince Consort.Funerary Monument, Brompton Cemetery He died in 1877 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery in London. WilliamWyldeBrompton01

Family

Wylde was a member of a Nottinghamshire family, the second son of Gervas Wylde and Catherine née Shudall. He married Eleanor MacCutcheon and they had three sons and three daughters. Eldest son William Henry Wylde (1819–1909) of Chiswick distinguished himself in the Foreign Office.

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1794 births 1877 deaths Royal Artillery officers British Army generals Companions of the Order of the Bath Burials at Brompton Cemetery Military personnel of the First Carlist War Members of the British Royal Household British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Equerries {{UK-army-bio-stub