A hereditary title created for James Parke (1782-1868), an English judge, in 1856. Though the title was hereditary, none of his sons survived him, and it thus became extinct upon his death.
A subsidiary title of the Viscount Ridley, created in 1900. (The 1st Viscount Ridley was a grandson of the above).
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The tenants-in-chief were termed generally barons (see Baron) and may be regarded historically as the parents of the peers of later days.
The earls were barons with their special name of dignity added, and their names always appear on the rolls before those of the barons.
Further, it was pointed out, there had been no life-creations for centuries, and those that are recorded to have been conferred since the crystallization of our parliamentary system were of such a nature that the grantees never sat in the house by virtue of their lifehonours, inasmuch as they were existing peers or women.
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