Theaker Wilder (c.1717 – c.1778) was the first Regius Professor of Greek and Senior Register at Trinity College, Dublin and became famous for being Oliver Goldsmith's 'learned savage' of a tutor.
Read more about Theaker Wilder: Family, Education, Tutor To Goldsmith, Marriage and Family, Later Life and Death, Publications, External Links
Famous quotes containing the word wilder:
“Gaze on them, till the tears shall dim thy sight,
But keep that earlier, wilder image bright.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)