Early Life
Wilding was the second of five children of Frederick and Julia Wilding. Wilding's parents had emigrated from England in 1879. His father was a well-to-do lawyer in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was educated there at Mr Wilson's School in Cramner Square, where he was captain of the school football team at 12, then attended the Canterbury University College for six months before going to England in 1902 to study law at Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he developed his tennis game as a member of the Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club. He graduated BA in 1905 and returned to New Zealand to join his father's law practice.
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