PEMBERTON, Edward Leigh (2 son of Robert Pemberton, barrister of Bispham hall, Lancs. and brother of 1 baron Kingsdown 1793–1867). b. 18 Feb. 1795; admitted solicitor 1816; practised in London 1816–69; member of council of Incorporated law society 24 June 1845 to death, vice-president 1856–7, president 1857–8. d. Torry hill, near Sittingbourne, Kent 12 March 1877. Solicitors’ Journal 24 March 1877 p. 399.
PEMBERTON, Edward Loines. b. U.S. of America 1844; educ. in England; devoted himself to the collection of postage stamps 1859; author with Thornton Lewes of Forged stamps and how to detect them 1863; edited The philatelical journal 1872–5; author of The philatelical catalogue, Dawlish 1874; The stamp collector’s handbook 1874, 2 ed. 1878; dealer in postage stamps at Southampton to decease. d. Southampton 12 Dec. 1878. The Philatelic Record i 2 (1879–80) with portrait.
PEMBERTON, George (only son of Stephen Pemberton of Oriel coll. Oxf. 1743–1831). b. 15 May 1784; cornet 2 life guards 19 March 1808, lieut. 10 Dec. 1808; lieut. 23 dragoons 15 Aug. 1812, sold out 22 April 1813; F.R.S. 11 Feb. 1813. d. Bainbridge, Holme, Durham 6 April 1851.
PEMBERTON, George Richard. b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 2 Bengal N.I. 18 Oct. 1806, lieut. 1809–15; captain 56 N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 11 Feb. 1839 to 1840; lieut. col. of 67 N.I. 1840–45; lieut. col. of 62 N.I. 1845, colonel 19 March 1849 to death; L.G. 6 Sept. 1862. d. York house, Chertsey 28 April 1866.
PEMBERTON, Henry Leigh (6 son of Edward Leigh Pemberton 1795–1877). b. 1837; solicitor 1860, member of firm of Pemberton, Garth, and Cope 5 New court, Carey st. London; solicitor to the Suitors’ fund of the court of chancery Dec. 1871; official solicitor to chancery division of the supreme court 1875, and to supreme court of judicature 1876 to death; solicitor to honourable society of Lincoln’s Inn to death. d. 20 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London 29 March 1895. Law Journal 6 April 1895 p. 238.
PEMBERTON, John. L.S.A. 1845; proprietor and medical superintendent of Droitwich lunatic asylum. d. Droitwich 4 May 1854.
PEMBERTON, Mordaunt (eld. son of Thomas Seaton Pemberton of St. Kitts, West Indies). b. 28 Sloane st. Chelsea 1838; educ. Brighton college 1853–5; called to West Indian bar about 1868, practised in Antigua many years; acting solicitor general of Nevis July 1870; deputy judge of vice-admiralty court of Leeward islands 1880, and acting attorney general July 1884 to 1887; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1886. d. Datchet, near Windsor 16 Dec. 1887. Law Times 31 Dec. 1887 p. 162.
PEMBERTON, Sholto Thomas (eld. son of Robert Pemberton of Nevis, West Indies). b. Nevis 29 June 1811; called to bar at Nevis about 1838; member of house of assembly many years; Q.C. Nevis 1848, solicitor general 1850–9; attorney general for Antigua 1859; chief justice of Dominica 1860; second puisne judge of Leeward islands 1871, and first puisne judge 1888 to death; acting president of Dominica 1881; refused chief justiceship of British Honduras and of the Bahamas. d. Queen’s house, Nevis 29 June 1889. Law Times 28 Sept. 1889 p. 359.
PEMBROKE, George Robert Charles Herbert, 13 Earl of (1 son of Sidney Herbert, 1 baron Herbert of Lea 1810–61). b. 5 Carlton gardens, London 6 July 1850; succeeded to the peerage as 2 baron Herbert of Lea 2 Aug. 1861; succeeded his uncle Robert, 12 earl of Pembroke 25 April 1862; educ. Eton 1862–5; under sec. of state for war March 1874 to May 1875; with Dr. George Kingsley travelled in Australia and the South Seas 1867–70, the result being a volume entitled South Sea bubbles, by the Earl and the Doctor 1872, 3 ed. 1895; also author of Roots, a plea for tolerance 1873, 2 ed. 1888 anon; Liberty and socialism 1885; he also wrote Yachts’ Sailing boats, in Yachting vol. i, pp. 203–40 (Badmington library 1894); hereditary visitor of Jesus coll. Oxf.; high steward of Wilton; captain 1 Wilts. rifle volunteers 2 Jany. 1872, major 3 June 1874; a county councillor for Wiltshire; vice-commodore Royal Cinque ports yacht club Dover 1872; was 6 feet 4 inches high. d. Bad-Neuheim, Frankfort, Germany 3 May 1895. bur. at Wilton. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii 142–65 (1854); Baily’s Mag. xxvi 249 (1875) portrait; I.L.N. 11 May 1895 p. 570 portrait; The new budget 9 May 1895 p. 3 portrait; Times 4 May 1895 p. 11.
PENDARVES, Edward William Wynne (2 son of John Stackhouse of Acton castle, near Marazion, Cornwall 1741–1819). b. 6 April 1775; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793–6; fellow of All Souls 1796, sub-warden 1803–4; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801; M.P. Cornwall 1826–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832 to death; F.R.S. 24 May 1827; assumed additional name of Wynne by sign manual 4 Jany. 1815, and that of Pendarves in lieu of Stackhouse by royal decree 28 Feb. 1815. d. Pendarves, near Camborne 26 June 1853.