Background
Parke was born on 22 March 1782 in Highfield, near Liverpool, to Thomas Parke, a merchant, and his wife Anne.
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The Power of Cavaley The decisive power of cavalry lies in its mobility and its rifle. The main value of cavalry now, as in the past, lies in opposing I nfantry. The term Mounted Infantry should be no longer one of reproach. On foot, the cavalry of today, man for man equal to infantry, can attack positions, with the same determination, the same resolution, as infantry. Cavalry that cannot fight on foot is worthless cavalry. But conversely, mounted infantry that cannot fight on horseback is worthless mounted infantry. Mounted infantrymen who are not horsemen and who cannot use the saber can be swept off the earth by good cavalry. They must be able to fight on horseback as well as cavalry. There is, then, no appreciable distinction between good mounted infantry and good cavalry. As a matter of fact, as regards their principal function, cavalry should be regarded as the mobile branch of the infantry. They use the same weapon, the rifle, which, often, their mobility enables them to use with great results. With this weapon in the American war of 1861- 65, they were constantly and consistently employed to carry positions by assault, to stop divisions and armies of infantry. The rifle is the principal weapon of the cavalryman of today. He is the rifleman on horseback, who in a few seconds can convert himself into a rifleman on foot, equal man for man to the best infantry, ready, like infantry, without quailing, to receive the mounted charge of cavalry and repel it. It is seldom possible now for horsemen to charge unshaken infantry. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important w
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Parke was born on 22 March 1782 in Highfield, near Liverpool, to Thomas Parke, a merchant, and his wife Anne.
He studied at The King's School, Macclesfield before matriculating to Trinity College, Cambridge on 28 February 1799, where he won the Craven scholarship, Sir William Browne's gold medal, and was fifth wrangler and senior chancellor's medallist in classics. He gained a Bachelor of Arts in 1802 and a Master of Arts in 1804.
Called to the bar at the Inner Temple he rapidly acquired an excellent common law practice and in 1828 was raised to the king's bench, while still of the junior bar.
In 1834 he was transferred from the king's bench to the court of exchequer, where for some twenty years be exercised considerable influence. The changes introduced by the Common Law Procedure Acts of 1854, 1855 proved too much for his legal conservatism and he resigned in December of the latter year.
The government, anxious to have his services as a law lord in the House of Lords, proposed to confer on him a life peerage, but thiswas opposed by the House of Lords (see Peerage), and he was eventually created a peer with the usual remainder (1856).
He died at his residence, Ampthili Park, Bedfordshire, on the 25th of February 1868, and having outlived his three sons, the title became extinct.
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.
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In 1817 he married Cecilia, the daughter of Samuel F. Barlow of Middlethorpe, Yorkshire. They had three children who survived childhood, all daughters:
Mary Parke (died 26 August 1843), an accomplished artist, married Charles Howard, a son of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle, and was the mother of the painter and arts patron George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle. Cecilia Anne Parke (died 20 April 1845), married Sir Matthew Ridley, 4th Baronet, and was the mother of Matthew Ridley, 5th Bnt (who was created Viscount Ridley and Baron Wensleydale in 1900). Charlotte Alice Parke (died 5 January 1908), married William Lowther, a grandson of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale.
