Ernest Wild (politician)
Sir Ernest Wild, KC (1 January 1869 – 13 September 1934) was a barrister, Judge and Conservative Party politician who served first on the London County Council, and then as a Member of Parliament.
Ernest Edward Wild was born on 1 January 1869 in Norwich, and was educated at Norwich School and Jesus College, Oxford University, before qualifying as a barrister in 1893. Practising at the bar, he was also a Judge of the Norwich Guildhall Court of Record from 1897 to 1922. He became King's Counsel in 1912.[2]
Ernest Wild stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative Party Parliamentary candidate on four occasions, twice in Norwich, at the 1904 by-election and at the 1906 general election, and twice in West Ham North, in the December 1910 general election and in the July 1911 by-election.[3]
From 1907 to 1910 he sat as a Municipal Reform Party member of the London County Council representing the Finsbury division of Holborn.[2]
He was knighted “for public services” in the June 1918 King's Birthday Honours.[4]
At the 1918 General Election Sir Ernest was elected as member for Upton division of West Ham,[5] standing as a Conservative supporter of David Lloyd George's coalition Government. In March 1922 he was appointed Recorder of London, the senior presiding judge at the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales. This caused controversy, because most judgeships, being "offices of profit under the Crown", disqualified one from the Commons, whereas the Recorder was appointed not by the Crown but by the City of London Corporation. The Lord Chancellor expressed the opinion that Wild should vacate his seat at "some comparatively early but convenient date" and he duly stood down as MP at the November 1922 election.[6] He remained Recorder of London until his death on 13 September 1934 at the age of 65.[7]
Sir Ernest Wild was an active Freemason, and in 1928 was appointed the Senior Grand Deacon of the Grand Lodge of England.[2]
References
- ^ From the Illustrated London News, 9 September 1907
- ^ a b c Who Was Who 1929-1940. Adam & Charles Black. 1947. ISBN 9780713601701.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1974). British parliamentary election results 1885–1918. Macmillan, London. ISBN 9780333169032.
- ^ "London Gazette, Supplement 8 June 1918". Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages". Constituencies beginning with"U". Archived from the original on 3 December 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
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- "Oral Answers to Questions: Recorder of London". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Commons. 10 May 1922. col. 2171–2173.
- "Personal Explanation (Sir E Wild)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Commons. 29 May 1922. col. 1705.
- Select Committee on Offices or Places of profit under the crown (14 October 1941). Report, with minutes of evidence, appendices and index. Parliamentary papers. Vol. HC 1940-41 (120) iii 487. p. 77 q. 877.
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ Obituary: Sir Ernest Wild, K.C. The Times: page 14. 14 September 1934.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Ernest Wild
- "Portrait: Sir Edward Ernest Wild drawn by Harry Furniss, National Portrait Gallery". Retrieved 25 October 2017.