Mark Wild was a table knife manufacturer, who specialised in desk knives.  His name appeared in a Sheffield directory in 1816 at Burgess Street.  His early life is unknown: however, Sheffield parish registers listed Mark Wilde, the son of Thomas Wilde (a cutler), who was baptised on 20 October 1758.   Mark Wild had moved to Radford Street by 1821, though in the early 1820s he worked at Allen Street.  Mark Wild, table knife maker, was last listed at Jericho (near Allen Street) in 1828.  Presumably, he was the ‘cutler’, who died at Daisy Walk and was buried at St Peter & St Paul churchyard on 9 October 1843.  His age in the register was 83.  No newspaper obituary has been traced.   However, in 1885 probate was belatedly granted to his relatives.  The grant recorded that the estate of Mark Wild (who had died on 10 October 1843) had been left ‘unadministered’ by James Hallam.  The estate was valued at £476.