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About James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale
James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale PC was a British barrister and judge. After an education at The King's School, Macclesfield and Trinity College, Cambridge he studied under a special pleader, before being called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1813. Although not a particularly distinguished barrister, he was appointed to the Court of King's Bench on 28 November 1828, made a Privy Counsellor in 1833 and, a year later, a Baron of the Exchequer. He resigned his post in 1855, angered by the passing of the Common Law Procedure Acts, but was recalled by the government, who gave him a peerage as Baron Wensleydale of Walton to allow him to undertake the judicial functions of the House of Lords, a role he fulfilled until his death on 25 February 1868.
Everything about James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale →- Occupation
- judge, politician
- Position held
- Court of King's Bench, Exchequer of Pleas, Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, member of the House of Lords
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- March 22, 1782
- Died
- February 25, 1868