His health being delicate, he was educated at home, but, by desultory reading in his father's library, acquired much miscellaneous knowledge, and before he was twenty gave proof of no small aptitude for antiquarian research in his ‘Topography and Natural History of Hampstead,’ Loncon, 1814; 2nd edit.
On 14 November 1815, Park was admitted a student at Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the bar on 6 February 1822, having practised for some years below it.
He was initiated into the mysteries of conveyancing by Richard Preston [q. v.], and while still a student, published a learned ‘Treatise on the Law of Dower,’ London, 1819, 8vo, which was long a standard work.
his Contre-Projet to the Humphreysian Code, and to the Project of Redaction of Messrs. Hammond, Uniacke, and Twiss, London, 1828, 8vo, and Three Juridical Letters [under the pseudonym of Eunomus]: addressed to the Right Hon.
Sir Robert Peel in reference to the Present Crisis of Law Reform, London, 8vo).
‘Conservative Reform: a Letter addressed to Sir William Betham,’ London, 1832, 8vo.