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.

Practising at the bar, he was also a Judge of the Norwich Guildhall Court of Record from 1897 to 1922.

[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.

[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.