Richard Wild (judge)

Sir Herbert Richard Churton Wild GBE KCMG QC (20 September 1912 – 22 May 1978) was the ninth Chief Justice of New Zealand.

[1] His father, Leonard Wild, was at that time science teacher at Marlborough High School.

His sister Dora later married the jurist John White.

[citation needed] Wild was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 1977.

He resigned as Chief Justice in early 1978 and died shortly after.