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Wild, Robert, D.D.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or an English Nonconformist divine, poet, and wit, was born at St. Ives. Huntingdonshire, in 1609. He was educated at the University of Cambridge; received his first degree in divinity at Oxford in 1642; was appointed rector at Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, in 1646; ejected, at the Restoration; and died at Oundle in 1679. He was the author of, Tragedy of Christopher Love at Tower Hill (1660): — Iter Boreale (eod.): — Poem on the Imprisonment of Mr. Edmund Calamy in Neuwate (1662): — Poems (1668): — Rome Rhym'd to Death (1683), being a collection of choice poems, in two parts, written by the earl of R[ochester], Dr. Wild, etc.: — The Benefice; a Comedy (1689). In 1870 appeared Poems by Robert Wild, D.D., one of the Ejected Ministers of 1662; with a Historical and Biographical Preface and Notes, by the Reverend John Hunt.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Wild, Robert, D.D.'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/w/wild-robert-dd.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
