Background
He was born in Camden to pastoralist John Benton Wild and Emmeline Gaudry (Godfrey).
He was born in Camden to pastoralist John Benton Wild and Emmeline Gaudry (Godfrey).
A barrister from 1858, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Camden in 1858. Re-elected for Camden in 1859, he did not run in 1860. Wild died in Sydney in 1861.
