Hiram Wild
Hiram Wild (15 March 1917 Sheffield - 28 April 1982 England) was an English botanist who worked in Southern Rhodesia. Wild studied at the Imperial College, University of London . In 1945 he wrote his Ph.D. thesis in which he examined the lettuce pathogen, "Bremia lactucae". From 1945 he worked as the government botanist in Southern Rhodesia , and soon became head of the Government Herbarium of Southern Rhodesia. In 1960 Wild started the Herbarium botanical journal 'Kirkia', named for John Kirk (1832–1922), African explorer and companion of David Livingstone. In the ensuing years he worked as its chief editor. Wild , along with Arthur Wallis Exell, initiated the "Flora Zambesiaca" project , a series of monographs on the flora of Africa. In 1965 Wild was appointed professor at Salisbury University College, now known as the University of Zimbabwe. In 1980, due to ill-health, he resigned as professor at Salisbury and moved to Cape Town. Personal life. Hiram was the son of Hiram Wild (*July 1895, Sheffield, Yorkshire) and Margaret Hawksworth (*13 May 1896 Sheffield, Yorkshire) He married Kathleen Mabel Jean Osborne (*8 July 1918 Cape Town) in 1945. They had 6 children.