Francis Pemberton

Sir Francis Pemberton (1624, 18 July - 10 June, 1697) was an English judge.

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]

He died at St Albans in 1697 and is buried in Highgate Chapel.