[5] However, it was deemed by the cricketing authorities that he did not meet the qualification criteria to play for Hampshire and thus never featured for the county again.
It was during Wilder's ownership of the estate that the house was destroyed by fire on 27 July 1900, losing many valuables, including carvings by Grinling Gibbons.
[7] Prior to selling the estate, Wilder was active in civic life in nearby Emsworth, laying a commemorative stone to the then under-construction Post Office in 1906.
[8] In 1911, his wife, the actress Una Evelyn Mazie Wilder, whom he wanted to divorce for misconduct, fled to the United States.
[9] His wife was charged with threats to kill in March 1912, having wrote a letter which stated: "George Wilder, the day you get a divorce will be your last on Earth.