John James Wild
1828/9–1900
Swiss-born artist. Hon. DPhil., Zurich, 1878. Foreign-language teacher in Frome, Somerset, 1851. Artist and private secretary to the civilian director of the Challenger expedition, 1872–6; assisted with the reports of the expedition. Emigrated to Australia.
Sources
Australia, death index, 1787–1985 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 March 2016)
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1932/512/8), 1881 (RG11/624/86/8)
Tizard et al. 1885, p. vii
Wagga Wagga Advertiser, 1 May 1878, p. 2
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