John Wylde - Member of A Family of Lawyers

Member of A Family of Lawyers

He was the eldest son of Thomas Wilde 1758-1821(NSW), attorney of Saffron Walden and Warwick Square London, founder in 1785 of Wilde Sapte now the multinational law firm Denton Wilde Sapte and Mary Anne, née Knight. Late in life Thomas Wilde, an amateur naturalist "of some distinction", retired and taking his piano, cello and flute followed his son John to Sydney, Australia where he died 4th December 1821.

John Wylde's two younger brothers were: Thomas Wilde 1782-1855, first Lord Truro, Lord Chancellor of England and Edward Archer Wilde 1786-1871, Solicitor of London who was father of, amongst others: James Plaisted Wilde, 1816-1899, first and last Lord Penzance; and General Sir Alfred Thomas Wilde, KCB CSI 1819-1878. Other 19th century Wildes, descendants of Thomas Wilde 1758-1821, were well-known London barristers and solicitors.

Educated at St Paul's School in London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Wylde was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1805. It was at St. Benedict's, Cambridge, that Wylde married Elizabeth Jane, née Moore, on 16th July 1805, with whom he fathered nine children. She remained in Australia and they were divorced in 1836.

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