Eric Wild (6 November 1914 – 10 August 1991)[1] was Bishop of Reading from 1972[2] 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.[3] After World War II service with the RNVR his subsequent experience included incumbencies in Wigan and Hindley, Greater Manchester[1] 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.[4]