Sir William Wilde, 1st Baronet (c. 1611 - 23 November 1679) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 in 1660.

Wilde was recorder of London in 1659. On 27 Mar 1660 he was elected Member of Parliament

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 for the City of London

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 in the Convention Parliament.

On 13 Sep 1660, Wilde was created baronet

Wilde Baronets

The Wilde Baronetcy, of London, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 13 September 1660 for William Wilde, Member of Parliament for the City of London. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1721....

. He was appointed King's Serjeant on 10 November 1661. He was made on of the judges of the court of common pleas in 1668 and advanced to become a justice of the King's Bench on 21 January 1672. HE was described as a "grave and venerable judge" and was deprived of his office a few months before his death because he disbelieved the evidence of Bedlow in the "Popish Plot".

Wilde was succeeded by his son Sir Felix Wilde, 2nd Baronet.