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Ernest Christian Wilford
A 19th-century British military writer, he is best known for practical books on rifles and musketry that helped explain shooting, projectile motion, and firearms training to officers and students.
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Class Book for the School of Musketry, Hythe Prepared for the Use of Officers
by Ernest Christian Wilford
About the author
Little biographical information about Ernest Christian Wilford is easy to confirm online, but his published work shows him as a British military author active in the mid-1800s. Sources describing his books connect him with the School of Musketry at Hythe and with technical writing on rifles, ballistics, and instruction for officers.
His best-known works include Three Lectures upon the Rifle (1860) and Class Book for the School of Musketry, Hythe. These books focus on how firearms work in practice, combining clear instruction with the science behind projectile motion and shooting.
Today, Wilford is mainly remembered through these specialist texts, which survive in digital libraries and offer a window into Victorian-era military training and the study of weapons science.