Born in Blenheim. Admitted to NZ Bar 1934; admitted partnership Bell Gully Mackenzie Buxton & Blundell 1945. 2NZEF, Middle East and Italy 1940-1945, mentioned in despatches; rank major, Married Janet Grainger in 1940, 4 children. Retired from partnership on appointment as Solicitor General 1957. President Wellington District Law Society 1960; Vice-President NZ Law Society 1962-1964. Appointed Chief Justice of NZ in 1966. Chairman of Absolute Liability Inquiry in 1963. Joint author of `Mercantile law in NZ'. [Source: The Story of Bell Gully Buddle Weir / J Millen, 1990]
Wild, Herbert Richard Churton (Sir), 1912-1978
Correspondence - H R C Wild
Date: Feb 1940-Dec 1944
From: Hughan family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1288-17
Description: Letter to Oxley Hughan from Wild serving in the Middle East. News of the war, the values it produces, news of mutual friends, of Montgomery Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Feilding Agricultural High School :Fiftieth Jubilee Commemoration 1921-1971. [Programme...
Date: 1971
From: [Ephemera concerning individual schools, with names beginning with F ... 1900s]
Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-Feilding-1971-01/03
Description: Includes programme for the commemoration event at which a tree was planted by Sir Richard Wild, Chief Justice. The toast list shows the names of those who proposed toasts, including Mr D A Taylor, Mr K E McKinnon, Miss Jill White, with replies by Mr Bernard Edgecombe and Mr R L Hughes. The dinner ticket is made out for Robin Gordon. All three items feature the school crest. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on booklet, and two cards, sizes varying up to 210 x 130 mm. Provenance: Donated by Kester Gordon, Wellington, in 2014.
Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and persona...
Date: 1955-1971
By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002
Reference: PA-Group-00375
Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.
Photographs of Sir Keith Holyoake being sworn in as Governor-General by the Chief Justi...
Date: 27 October 1977
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1977/4351-F
Description: Photographs of Sir Keith Holyoake being sworn in as Governor-General of New Zealand by the Chief Justice, Sir Richard Wild, taken on 27 October 1977 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Original caption reads: "One can only speculate on the joke that broke the solemnity of the occasion when Sir Keith was sworn in as Governor-General of New Zealand yesterday by the Chief Justice (Sir Richard Wild)..." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
Miscellaneous papers
Date: [ca 1919-1964]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: fMS-Papers-5714-5
Description: Comprises letters of institution for Riddiford as a lay canon of the Cathedral Chapter of the Diocese of Wellington (1947); correspondence and papers re Riddiford gift of land for Marsden School and other related matters (1920-1964); amended list of Masterton Club members (1922); clipping re Lower Wairarapa Development Scheme (Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 Mar 1963); and financial papers re Ruamahanga Station (1919) and letter and memo from Wheeler [?] re Te Awaiti (1921?) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence relating to the death of Meta Riddiford (W)
Date: [1963]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5714-022
Description: Inward letters and cards of condolence; not all senders given name entry Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Photographic prints relating to obituaries, TO - Z
Date: 1950-2000
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: PAColl-7327-1-171
Description: Photographs relating to the lives of prominent New Zealanders, arranged alphabetically from TO to Z, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.
Royal Commission on the Courts - Correspondence
Date: 1977
From: Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005 : Papers
Reference: 2000-235-6/12
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Royal Commission on the Courts - Other submissions
Date: 1977
From: Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005 : Papers
Reference: 2000-235-6/11
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Inward letters - Parkinson, Charles to Wilson, Robert A
Date: 1931-1971
From: Seddon family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1619-161
Description: Some of the identifiable correspondents entered in name field. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Inward correspondence from well-known people
Date: [1940-1963]
From: Riddiford family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5714-018
Description: Comprises letters from Lord Freyberg, Howard Macmillan, Willoughby Norrie, Lord Cobham, Richard Wild and Lord Kilmuir Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Inward correspondence - General
Date: [ca 1942-1967]
From: Cox, Geoffrey Sandford (Sir), 1910-2008 : Papers
Reference: 2003-005-5/13
Description: Letters to Cox, with a few copies of replies.. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Chief Justice Sir Richard Wild, and Prime Minister Keith Holyoake
Date: 22 June 1966
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1966/2627-F
Description: The Chief Justice Sir Richard Wild presiding at a meeting of the Executive Council. The Prime Minister Keith Holyoake is seated on his right. Photographed on the 22nd of June 1966 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Finding Aids: Print in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustration files at EP-NZ Obits-Holyoake, Keith.
Wild, John :Photograph of Herbert Richard Churton Wild, 1912-1978
Date: Ca 1960
Reference: 1/2-199131-F
Description: Photograph of Herbert Richard Churton Wild (1912-1978), lawyer, university lecturer, judge, solicitor general and chief justice, taken ca 1960 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 12.5 x 10 cm
Mr H R C Wild, QC, the Solicitor General
Date: 22 Sept 1957
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1957/3782-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches
Mr H R C Wild, QC, the Solicitor General
Date: 22 Sept 1957
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1957/3782-1-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6.5 x 6.5 inches
Chief Justice of New Zealand, Sir Richard Wild
Date: 4 March 1966
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1966/0507-F
Description: Portrait of Sir Richard Wild, Chief Justice of New Zealand. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 4th of March 1966. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) Single image on 35mm negative strip.