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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
o the peerage with the title of Baron Wensleydale. A second patent was issued to remove a disability from sitting and voting in Parliament, which arose from the limitation of the first patent to the term of his natural life. See reference to Baron Parke's subtlety and eccentricity in Arnould's Life of Lord Denman, Vol. I. p. 329, Vol. II. p. 250. In 1872, Justice Blackburn referred to him as probably the most acute and accomplished lawyer this country ever saw. Brinsmead v. Harrison, Law Reports, 7 C. P. pp. 547, 554. Sumner during this visit dined several times with Baron Parke. Eight years later, when an insurance case was cited in the Court of Exchequer from Sumner's Reports, the Baron asked, Is that the Mr. Sumner who was once in England? An affirmative reply being made, he said, We shall not consider it entitled to the less attention because reported by a gentleman whom we all knew and respected. Sumner, when visiting England in 1857, received courtesies from Baron Wensley