George Wilde (bishop)

The Rt Rev. George Wilde, DD, MA (9 January 1610 - 29 December 1665) (1617 – 1679) was Bishop of Derry from 1661 to 1665.^[1]

Wilde was born in London;educated at Merchant Taylors’ and St John's College, Oxford;^[2] and ordained in 1636. He was Chaplain to Archbishop Laud, then Vicar of St Giles, Reading and Rector of Biddenden. A committed Royalist, after the Restoration Wilde was elevated to the Episcopate and consecrated at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 27 January 1661. His funeral sermon was preached by Robert Mossom Bishop), his successor.^[3]

Notes

1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 345. ISBN 0-521-56350-X
2. “Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 3” Cotton,H p318: Dublin, Hodges, 1848
3. Richard Bagwell, ‘Wild, George (1610–1665)’, rev. Jason Mc Elligott, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 3 Sept 2014