William Wylde
{{Short description|British Army general}}
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General William Wylde CB (12 March 1788Sir Bernard Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain – 14 April 1877) was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior ceremonial position in the Royal Artillery after the Sovereign.
Military career
Wylde was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1803{{London Gazette|issue=15619|page=1198|date=10 September 1803}} and rose through the officer ranks to become a Lieutenant-General in 1863.{{London Gazette|issue=22717|page=1515|date=17 March 1863}} In the First Carlist War, he was British Commissioner to the Christinist Army, and played a significant role as artilleryman in relieving the siege of Bilbao by Carlist forces.{{cite web |last1=James |first1=William Hill |title=A tandem-trip in Spain : from Biarritz through the Basque provinces ; The country and the people |url=https://archive.org/details/tandemtripinspai00jame/page/24|pages=24–5 |publisher=Edinburgh : M'lagan & Cumming |date=1905}}
He was made Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery in 1863{{London Gazette|issue=22705|page=643|date=6 February 1863}} and promoted to full General in 1866,{{London Gazette|issue=23162|page=5031|date=14 September 1866}} and then held the position of Master Gunner, St James's Park from 1868.{{Cite web |url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/art-eng-sig/RA.htm |title=Royal Artillery at Regiments.org |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=12 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112133926/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/art-eng-sig/RA.htm |url-status=dead }}
He was also a Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince Consort.Funerary Monument, Brompton Cemetery
He died in 1877{{London Gazette|issue=24461|page=3267|date=22 May 1877}} and is buried in Brompton Cemetery in London.
Family
Wylde was a member of a Nottinghamshire family, the second son of Gervas Wylde and Catherine née Shudall. He married Eleanor MacCutcheon and they had three sons and three daughters. Eldest son William Henry Wylde (1819–1909) of Chiswick distinguished himself in the Foreign Office.
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