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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 520 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WENSLEYDALE, See also:JAMES PARKE, See also:BARON (1782-1868) , See also:English See also:judge, was See also:horn near See also:Liverpool on the 22nd of See also:March 1782. He was educated at See also:Macclesfield See also:grammar school and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He had a brilliant career at the university, winning the See also:Craven scholarship, See also:Sir See also:William See also:Browne's See also:gold See also:medal, and being fifth wrangler and See also:senior See also:chancellor's medallist in See also:classics. Called to the See also:bar at the Inner See also:Temple he rapidly acquired an excellent See also:common See also:law practice and in 1828 was raised to the See also:king's See also:bench, while still of the junior bar. In 1834 he was transferred from the king's bench to the See also:court of See also:exchequer, where for some twenty years he exercised considerable See also:influence. The changes introduced by the Common Law See also:Procedure Acts of 1854, 1855 proved too much for his legal conservatism and he resigned in See also:December of the latter See also:year. The See also:government, anxious to have his services as a law See also:lord in the See also:House of Lords, proposed to confer on him a See also:life See also:peerage, but this was opposed by the House of Lords (see PEERAGE), and he was eventually created a peer with the usual See also:remainder (1856). He died at his See also:residence, See also:Ampthill See also:Park, See also:Bedfordshire, on the 25th of See also:February 1868, and having outlived his three sons, the See also:title became See also:extinct.

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