Richard Wild (judge)
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Sir Herbert Richard Churton Wild Template:Postnominals (20 September 1912 – 22 May 1978) was the ninth Chief Justice of New Zealand.
Family
Wild was born in Blenheim in 1912.[1] His father, Leonard Wild, was at that time science teacher at Marlborough High School.[2] He attended Feilding Agricultural High School. His sister Dora later married the jurist John White.[3] His son, John Wild, was a judge at the High Court and then the Court of Appeal.[4]
Chief justice
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Wild was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 1977. He resigned as Chief Justice in early 1978 and died shortly after.[1]
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