William Henry Wylde (civil servant)

William Henry Wylde (1819–1909) was a British civil servant of the Foreign Office, where he was head of the Commercial, Consular, and Slave Trade Departments.

[5] In 1884 he read part of the 1883 diary of Henry Edward O'Neill, consul in Mozambique, to the Royal Geographical Society, of which he had become a Fellow in 1863.

[9] In 1873 he pressed for the continuation of payments to Masaba of the Bida Emirate, as positive for British trade prospects in the area.

[11] In the early 1870s he considered that the extent of the British consular presence in the Levant was justified in terms of keeping the peace there.

[3] The sons included Augustus Blandy Wylde (1849–1909), African traveller and agent for the Sudan Trading Company.

Flag of an African slave trader, presented to William Henry Wylde, involved in the 1865 commission to revise Slave Trade Instructions, by Capt. Arthur Parry Eardley Wilmot R.N.