Sir James Plaisted Wilde, judge of the Court of Arches, 1880.Artist: Lock & Whitfield

Sir James Plaisted Wilde, judge of the Court of Arches, 1880. In 1860 he was appointed Baron of the Exchequer. In 1863 he was appointed Judge of the Court of Probate and Judge Ordinary of the Divorce Court. He was made a lord in 1869, and given the title Baron Penzance of Penzance, Cornwall. In 1875 he was appointed Judge under the Public Worship Regulation Act (Dean of the Arches), and also became the official principal of the chancery court of York. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)