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 9 4 WENM AN — WKNSLEYD ALE. THAMK PARK, oo. Oion,(*) with rem. of that Barony to the hein male of her bodj. She d. unm., at Thame Park, 9 Aug. 1870, aged 80, and waa hur. ia the chapel there, when the peerage became extinel; M.I. Will, d«t. 29 May 1866, pr. 13 Oct 1870, under £30,000. WENMAN OF TUAM. !.«., " Wknman op Tuam, CO. Oalway," Visooiintoy [I.] ( Wenman), er. 1628 ; ex. 1800. See above, under " Wkmmam of Kiijiaimham." WENSLEYDALE, and WENSLEYDALE OP WALTON. Baronv for i. •* Sir Jambs Parks, Kd^ lat« one of the Barons life. of the Ouurt of Exchequer," was er, 16 Jan. 1866, BARON I 1856 WENSLEYDALE of Weualeydala in the North Riding, oo. York, . ' for the term of hi4 natural life,(^) being, aiz montha later, er., IRTH ^^ •'"'y ^®^®» BAKON WENSLEYDALE OF WALTON, oo. loOo. I^anciuter, with tlitt iimiiiiI reuiuinder. He waa yat. a. of Thomoa Baronv Paukk, of Highfieltl Houiie, near Liverpool, Merchant, by Anne, '' da. of William Piibston ; waa 6. at Higbfield, 22 March 1782 ; ed. L 1856, at Macdeefield gnimmHr achool and at Trin. Coll., Cambridge, to whArH he obtiiinad the Cntven Uuiversity acholarship in 1799 ; 1868, buhulur of hia College, 1800 ; Browne'a medalliat. 1802 ; B.A., 6th Wrangler and Senior Chancellor'a medalliat, 1803 ; Fellow, 1804 ; M.A. 1806, and finally, 1836, LL.D. He became a Student at Lino. Inn ; practiaed many years aa apecial pleader, and, becoming a Barrister (Inner Temple) 1818, went the northern circuit Seven years later, in 1820, he waa one of (a) On thia creation Charles Greville ['* Afeiaoira,** vol. iii, p. 84] thus comments, 23 May 1834 : " The maddest thing of hU is (what appeared in the OazeUe of Tueaday) the Peerage conferred on ... . She ia a diarepu table, half -mad woman ; he [William I''] |)erhaps thought it fit to give her this compensation for not being Queen, for he wanted to marry her, and would have done so if the late King would have conaented." (^) The object of this life peerage (for, as the grantee had no aurviying male isaue, the ordinary limitation would, in hia case, have made no difference) was to create a precedent, whereby the House of Lords might be strengthened by men whoae means were inauffioieut to enable them to support an hereditary peeraffe. The Committee for Privilegea, having negativeil a motion that the question ahoiud be referred to the Judges, which in a matter of law seemed the obvioua course) moved, 22 Feb. 1866, '* that neither the said letters patent, nor the said letters patent with the uaual writ of aummona, enable the grantee to sit and vote in Pari.," which was ^* resolved and adjudged " 3 daya later, it having been intimated that the Government would not oppose such oonflrmati<m. The second peenige [er, in July 1866], of course, removed all difficulty aa to a seat in thia case. In 1863 Earl Russell introduced a bill for the creation of life peeragea, which waa, however, rejected, but in 1876 two (a number to be afterwards increased to four) I^rds of appeal were authoriaed to be Barona and Lorda of Pari, duriug ofiee^ which duration whb. in 1887, extended to their life, A UPB-PSBBAQii (•'.£., one with tic remainder, differing thereby from a peerage- forMfe, r.e., one granted with a remainder) tho' it haa frequently been bestowed upon women (aee vol. iii, pp. 474-476) haa apparently but seldom been, nominaUm, conferred on men. Where it baa been granted to one who already poaaeased a peerage dignity, it may be conaidered more in the light of a promotion, and, of course, haa no bearing upon a aeat in Pari. Such waa (1) the Mabqdkssatb of Dobun con- ferred by Ria II, 1 Dec. 1386, and the Dukkdom op Ireland, conferred 13 Oct. 1386, both on Robert (de Yere), Earl of Oxford ; (2) Thb Dukkdom of Aquitaimb im Francs (if indeed that, being a foreign dignity, ahould be reckoned) conferred, also by hie. II, on John (Plantagenet) the well-known Duke of Lancaater ; so alao (3) tpe Du|iiux)ai of E^otiib was conferred on Thomas (Beaufort) Earl of DorMt ; and