Men-at-the-Bar/Penzance, Lord (James Plaisted Wilde)

by Joseph Foster

Penzance, Lord (Rt. Hon. James Plaisted Wilde), so created 6 April, 1869, dean of arches since 1875, junior counsel to excise and customs 1840, counsel to duchy of Lancaster 1859–60, baron of the exchequer 1860–3, judge of probate court 1863–72, knighted 13 April, 1860, P.C. July, 1864, member of the Legal Digest Commission, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1842, from Winchester, a student of the Inner Temple 15 April, 1836 (then aged 19), called to the bar 22 Nov., 1839, Q.C. 6 July, 1855, bencher 15 Jan., 1856 (2nd son of Edward Archer Wilde, of London, solicitor); born 12 July, 1816; married 20 Feb., 1860. Lady Mary Pleydell-Bouverie, youngest dau. of William, 3rd earl of Radnor (see Foster's Peerage).

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