BONNETTING THE NEW BOY PARKE

Original 11 inch x 8 1/4 inch Single-Sided Wood Engraved Cartoon page titled BONNETTING THE NEW BOY PARKE from Punch, February 16th, 1856.

James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale (1782 – 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 job he fulfilled until his death on 25 February 1868.

The cartoon is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.