Francis PEMBERTON

1624 - 1697  (73 years)

• Name	Francis PEMBERTON
  Born	18.07.1624	St. Albans, Herts
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	Lord Chief Justice
  Died	10.06.1697	Highgate, London
  Buried	1697	Highgate Chapel
  Person ID	I1721	Tarleton
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2009

  
  

  Father	Ralph PEMBERTON,   b. 1588, St. Albans, Herts ,   d. 09.10.1644, St. Albans, Herts  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Frances KEMPE,   b. 1592, St. Albans, Herts ,   d. 25.05.1659, St. Albans, Herts  (Age 67 years)
  Married	16.10.1616	St. Albans, Herts
  Family ID	F752	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne WHICHCOTE,   b. 1638 C, of St. Albans, Herts ,   d. 1731, Highgate, London
  Children	+ 1. Anne PEMBERTON,   b. 1672, Highgate, London ,   d. 22 Feb1705, Brabourne, Kent in childbirth  (Age ~ 33 years)
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2021
  Family ID	F751	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Sir Francis Pemberton

  
  

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  Portrait: http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/collections/special/exhibitions/portrait_exhibit/Sir_Francis_Pemberton.php Sir Francis Pemberton was a Lord Chief Justice of England. He was educated in 1693 in King's College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. In his early life, he squandered his means in lascivious and profligate living and eventually was imprisoned in the Fleet debtors? prison. The experience served him well "as a school, a university and an inn of court". He defended many of his fellow inmates whilst incarcerated. His experience had another benefit in that he was exceptionally sensitive to the well being of prisoners. On his release, he was cordially welcomed by Inner Temple, as a member. . In April 1688, King James VII (Scotland) and II (England) issued a second Declaration of Indulgence, and ordered it to be read in all churches and chapels throughout the kingdom on two successive Sundays. On May 18th the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and six bishops of his province of Canterbury protested and petitioned the king to excuse them from carrying out this order. James II had the seven bishops arrested, imprisoned in the Tower of London on a charge of "seditious libel". He put them on trial in Westminster Hall before a court of 60 nobles, they were acquitted to the general acclamation of the populous. Sir Frances PEMBERTON, Lord Chief Justice at the time defended the seven bishops. Seven eminent Englishmen, subsequently meeting at Shrewsbury, addressed a letter to William of Orange which was delivered by Admiral Herbert. By 11 December, James II had left for exile and a Protestant succession was assured. This, the so-called "Glorious Revolution", led to his replacement by King William. He was born at St Albans and was educated at St Albans School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Pemberton was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from April 11th, 1681 until September 28th, 1683. Pemberton was twice removed from the Bench, and twice imprisoned by the House of Commons. He twice returned to the bar, and after his second return in 1683 he appointed as a serjeant-at-law until his death. John Evelyn wrote in his diary for 4th October, 1683: "He was held to be the most learned of the judges and an honest man". [1] By 1683 he was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench