John Vernon Wild CMG OBE (26 April 1915 — 21 July 2012) was an English first-class cricketer, educator and colonial administrator in the Uganda Protectorate.
[5] After graduating from Cambridge, Wild joined the Colonial Service in the Protectorate of Uganda in 1938.
[1] He was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1955 Birthday Honours in recognition of his services in Uganda,[7] and was later made a companion to the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1960 Birthday Honours.
[1] He left the Colonial Service in 1960 and returned to England, where he took up a post teaching maths at Hele's School, Exeter.
[1] Wild died at the nursing home in which was resident in at Burwash in Sussex in July 2012.