Wensleydale Peerage.

Wensleydale Peerage. In 1856 Sir James Parke (1782-1868), a judge of the Court of Exchequer, was created a life-peer, in accordance with an ancient but, it was maintained, wholly obsolete usage. The resolution of the House of Lords, led by Lord Lyndhurst, not to receive the new baron, led to his being given a peerage of the usual kind (it died with him). There are, however, a number of official life-peers—the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary.