1860 Two A/L, James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale to MASONS & Co Photographers

Description: 1860 James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale to MASONS & Co Photographers, One from 56 Park Street, London and one from Ampthill Park in Bedfordshire.; James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale PC (22 March 1782 – 25 February 1868) 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. Early life and education Parke was born on 22 March 1782 in Highfield, near Liverpool, to Thomas Parke, a merchant, and his wife Anne. He studied at The King's School, Macclesfield before matriculating to Trinity College, Cambridge on 28 February 1799, where he won the Craven scholarship, Sir William Browne's gold medal, and was fifth wrangler and senior chancellor's medallist in classics.[1] He gained a Bachelor of Arts in 1802 and a Master of Arts in 1804. Although admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 10 May 1803, he transferred to the Inner Temple on 22 April 1812, and after studying with a special pleader was called to the Bar in 1813. Career Parke's early career as a barrister was not noted as particularly brilliant, but he was successful; in 1820, for example, he was junior counsel for the Pains and Penalties Bill 1820 against Caroline of Brunswick.[2] On 28 November 1828 he succeeded Sir George Holroyd as a judge of the Court of King's Bench,[3] a great achievement for somebody who had not even qualified as a King's Counsel, and he was knighted on 1 December 1828.[4][5] In 1833 he was made a Privy Councillor, and on 29 April 1834 was transferred, along with Edward Hall Alderson, to the Court of Exchequer, succeeding and being succeeded as a judge of the Court of King's Bench by John Williams. Parke's work in the Court of Exchequer has led to him being called "one of the greatest of English judges; had he comprehended the principles of equity as fully as he did the principles of the common law, he might fairly be called the greatest. His mental power, his ability to grasp difficult points, to disentangle complicated facts, and to state the law clearly, have seldom been surpassed. No judgments delivered during this period are of greater service to the student of law than his". He was criticised for being too respectful of authority and unwilling to overturn precedent; John Coleridge accused him of being dedicated to the form of the law rather than the substance. In 1854, Parke was appointed to the Royal Commission for Consolidating the Statute Law, a royal commission to consolidate existing statutes and enactments of English law. The Common Law Procedure Act 1854 and Common Law Procedure Act 1855 led to his resignation from the Exchequer in disgust, but his reputation was such that the government recalled him by granting him a life peerage, that of Baron Wensleydale, of Wensleydale, in the North Riding of Yorkshire on 16 January 1856.[9] There was a question at the time of whether the letters patent, which granted him a peerage "for the term of his natural life", allowed him to sit in the House of Lords; it was eventually decided that they did not, and a second set was issued with the usual form for Baron Wensleydale, of Walton, in the County Palatine of Lancaster on 23 July 1856.[10] This was irrelevant, since he had no sons able to take the peerage even if it was not a life appointment. He sat as part of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords until his death on 25 February 1868.[11] Personal life In 1817 he married Cecilia, the daughter of Samuel F. Barlow of Middlethorpe, Yorkshire. They had three children who survived childhood, all daughters: Mary Parke (died 26 August 1843), an accomplished artist, married Charles Howard, a son of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle, and was the mother of the painter and arts patron George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle. Cecilia Anne Parke (died 20 April 1845), married Sir Matthew Ridley, 4th Baronet, and was the mother of Matthew Ridley, 5th Bnt (who was created Viscount Ridley and Baron Wensleydale in 1900). Charlotte Alice Parke (died 5 January 1908), married William Lowther, a grandson of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale. London photographer Robert Hindry Mason, (Masons & Co, 7 Amen Corner, London ) known for his portraits of Charles Dickens, he worked with several other photographs to register works, including successful portrait photographers John and Charles Watkins and stereoscopic specialist Thomas Richard Williams. Robert Hindry Mason was born in Great Yarmouth, where his father (also called Robert) was a professor of dancing. Little is known of his early life; however, there is a record of his spending twelve months in prison in 1841–42, for the offense of “Larceny by Servant”—a crime of stealing, while in a position of trust, from one’s employer (County of Norfolk 349). In the 1850s he became a newspaper publisher: he founded the Greenwich and West Kent Observer in 1853, and owned the Sunderland Times, Sheffield Advertiser, and the London & Eton Gazette (Mackie 2: 360). In 1858 he established a publishing firm at 7 Amen Corner, 36 Paternoster Row, in the City of London. By the early 1860s the nature of his business began to change. Kelly’s Post Office London Directory for 1863 identifies the firm as “publishers’ (Kelly 1863, 129); in 1864 the designation is altered to “photographic publishers” (Kelly 1864, 161; see also “Mason, Robert Hindry”). In October 1864 Mason took over the premises of John Damerell Symons at 28 Old Bond Street, and traded there as a photographer (see Kelly 1865, 571) until October 1872. He extended his enterprises to other parts of the country: he kept a foothold near his birthplace, by establishing a photographic business in Norwich, and also set up another establishment in Cheltenham. His advertisements boasted his expertise in “Every branch of photography,” with “Family pictures and works of art copied, and enlarged or reduced to any size” (“First-Class Photographic Portraits”). Mason rose to fame through publishing several series of highprofile photographs, including the Church of England Photographic Portrait Gallery (1858–61, in 66 parts; John Watkins provided the images, and Mason compiled the brief biographical sketches); a series of portraits of eminent lawyers called The Bench and the Bar (1859–60; photographs by John Watkins); a monthly series called The British Photographic Portrait Gallery (1860–61); and a colossal image, measuring twelve feet by seven feet, of the worldwide Pan-Anglican Synod at Lambeth Palace in 1868 (see “A Monster Photographic Group”). Mason’s images were largely produced using the collodion process, which was invented in 1850, and involved spreading a viscous, light-sensitive liquid onto a glass plate; when this was transferred to a camera and exposed to light for a few seconds, an image was captured. The wet plate was then developed, and the image fixed. When a paper negative was placed against the glass and exposed, a photograph was produced. It was an inexpensive process, and was capable of producing multiple prints of consistent quality, on paper coated with an emulsion of egg albumen and salt, which was then dipped in silver nitrate to render it photosensitive; such photographs are often referred to as “albumen prints” (see Gernsheim and Gernsheim, The History of Photography 197–206). Mason’s particular talent lay in advertising and distributing photographs (often taken by others) to a consuming public anxious to purchase popular images. For example, in 1859 he partnered with the photographer Arthur James Melhuish to accept commissions from the public for specially produced images of country houses (“Photographic Views of Country Mansions”); Melhuish also provided the photographs for Mason’s Cathedrals and Churches of England (1859). Mason also obtained exclusive permission to photograph prominent individuals; for instance, he issued cartes-de-visite of King George I of Greece, who visited London in 1863 (see “The King of Greece”). In 1862 he obtained sole rights to publish a full-length photograph of the recently deceased Prince Albert, and cashed in on its exclusivity as “the last time his Royal Highness sat for a portrait,” which was “specially selected by himself for publication” (“The Late Prince Consort”). : Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

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