Richard Wild (judge)
Sir Herbert Richard Churton Wild was the ninth Chief Justice of New Zealand. Wild was born in Blenheim but attended Feilding Agricultural High School.He famously decided the case of Fitzgerald v Muldoon and Others in 1976.
Wild was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 1977. He resigned as Chief Justice in early 1978 and died shortly after. One of Sir Richard's sons, John Wild QC, was later appointed a Justice of the New Zealand Court of Appeal.
