George Wylde (or Wilde; 1594 – 15 January 1650[a]) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1650.
Wylde was the younger son of George Wylde and his wife Frances Huddleston, daughter of Sir Edmund Huddleston of Sawston, Cambridgeshire. He was baptised at St Peter de Witton, Droitwich, matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 18 March 1608 aged 14 and was awarded BA on 24 January 1611. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 16 April 1618.[1]
Wylde died on 15 January 1650[3] and was buried in Westminster Abbey on the north side of the Chapel of Kings by St Paul's door.[4][5]
Notes
^All dates in this article are in the Old StyleJulian calendar used in Britain throughout Wylde's lifetime; however, years are assumed to start on 1 January rather than 25 March, which was the English New Year.