Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale NPG Ax9866

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Walker & Sons

Trained in the law, he was called to the Bar and rapidly built up a legal practice. In 1828, he was raised to the King's Bench and in 1834; he was transferred to the Court of the Exchequer, where he exercised considerable influence as a judge for almost twenty years until 1855. The government under Lord Palmerston was keen to have his services as a Law Lord, and he was made a life peer as Baron Wensleydale in 1856. There was opposition in the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.