Eric Wild

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Eric Wild (6 November 1914 – 10 August 1991) was Bishop of Reading from 1972D-day chaplain to be new Reading bishop The Times Wednesday, 12 January 1972; pg. 3; Issue 58373; col B to 1982.

Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1938. His first post was as a Curate at St Anne, Stanley, Liverpool.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-776 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} After World War II service with the RNVR his subsequent experience included incumbencies in Wigan and Hindley, Greater Manchester{{Who's Who | title=Wild, Eric | id = U176244 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 3 April 2016 }} followed by posts as Director of Religious Education for the Diocese of Peterborough and (his final post before appointment to the episcopate) Archdeacon of Berkshire.[http://www.purley.eu/H3P/YB.pdf Archdeacons of Berkshire] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720171225/http://www.purley.eu/H3P/YB.pdf |date=20 July 2011 }}