By the late 1940s he seemed to be in full missionary mode and was giving lectures on his principles and techniques at London’s Caxton Hall. Apparently these were often attended by both supporters and opponents so would frequently end in disorder. Gervas d’Olbert in his Chastisement Across The Ages describes Wildman’s appearance at these meetings as “…deadly serious with the eyes of a fanatic… always arrayed in cap, mortar-board and gown” but that his speeches were “…invariably of the dullest and most monotonous type: content and delivery were alike undistinguished.”
Eric Wildman 1950s Crusader for Corporal Punishment5
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