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{{short description|English cricketer, colonial administrator, and educator}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
|                name =
|               image =
|             country = England
|            fullname = John Vernon Wild
|          birth_date = 26 April 1915
|         birth_place = [[Wallasey]], [[Cheshire]], England
|          death_date = {{death date and age|2012|7|21|1915|4|26|df=yes}}
|         death_place = [[Burwash]], [[Sussex]], England
|            nickname =
|              family =
|             batting = Right-handed
|             bowling = Right-arm [[Spin bowling|slow]]
|                role =
|               club1 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]
|               year1 = 1938
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
|            matches1 = 11
|               runs1 = 193
|            bat avg1 = 11.35
|           100s/50s1 = –/–
|          top score1 = 34
|         deliveries1 = 1,796
|            wickets1 = 29
|           bowl avg1 = 36.10
|            fivefor1 = 2
|             tenfor1 = –
|       best bowling1 = 6/125
|  catches/stumpings1 = 5/–
|                date = 15 January
|                year = 2022
|              source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22978.html Cricinfo
}}
'''John Vernon Wild''' {{postnominal|CMG|OBE}} (26 April 1915 — 21 July 2012) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er, educator and colonial administrator in the [[Uganda Protectorate]].
== Early life and education ==
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 matriculating 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://books.google.com/books?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>
== Career ==
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 lieutenant#United 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 Council#Committee on self-government 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" />
== Personal life ==
Wild died at the nursing home in which was resident in at [[Burwash]] in Sussex in July 2012.
==References==
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==External links==
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