Modern English biography

_portrait_; _I.L.N. 30 April 1892 p._ 543 _portrait_; _Pictorial World 30 April 1892 p._ 3 _portrait_. PELLY, SAVILLE MARRIOTT (brother of preceding). _b._ 28 March 1819; educ. Winchester; at Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1859; assistant surgeon Bombay service 2 June 1841; served in Sind 1843, and with the Sind irregular horse in sir C. Napier’s campaign 1844–5; with the army of observation at Bhawalpoor 1846–7, and at pacification of Sind frontier 1847–8; served in Rajpootana during the mutiny 1857–8, and as senior medical officer was present at attack on Nimbhaira, the action of Feerun, the siege of Neemuch and the pursuit of Tantia Topee, Indian medal and clasp for Central India; principal medical officer of Indian medical department in Abyssinian campaign 1867–8; C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; deputy inspector general of hospitals Poona and Southern division 4 April 1867, retired as inspector general 1870; resided in Dublin some years. _d._ Woodstock house, Burnt Ash hill, Lee, Kent 3 April 1895. PEMBERTON, CHRISTOPHER PEACH (elder son of Christopher Robert Pemberton of Newton, Cambs. 1801–84). _b._ May 1838; ensign Scots fusilier guards 21 Dec. 1855, captain and lieut. col. 22 Aug. 1868, sold out 20 Oct. 1869; military correspondent of The Times during Franco-Prussian war in the 4 German army corps under the crown prince of Saxony 1870; author of The Scapegoat. By Leo, 2 vols. 1869, a novel; generally known as Kit Pemberton; _killed_ by a chassepot bullet in battle of Sedan between Daigny and Fond de Givonne 1 Sept. 1870. _bur._ in churchyard of Newton, Cambs. 3 Dec. _I.L.N. 1 Oct. 1870 p._ 336 _portrait_, _10 Jany. 1874 p._ 44, _view of monument_; _Times 10 Sept 1870 p._ 6, _11 Oct p._ 6, _2 Dec. p._ 7, _5 Dec. p._ 11. 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.