Pemberton, Israel (1), a Quaker preacher of great usefulness, was the son of Phineas Pemberton, one of the early settlers of Pennsylvania, and was born in Bucks County of that state in 1684. He was appren- ticed to a merchant in Pliiladelphia, and subsequently became one of the most considerable merchants of that
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city. He took an active part in the public affairs of the province, and was for nineteen years a member of the (ieneral Assembly. Having been trained religiously, he sustained through life an unblemished character by his justice, integrity, and uprightness. He was endowed with a peculiar sweetness of disposition, which rendered his company agreeable and instructive. He also devoted himself to the ministration of the truth, and approved himself a faithful elder, manifesting by his meekness and humility that, having submitted himself to the disci- pline of the cross, he was qualified to counsel others in the way of holiness. While attending the funeral of an acquaintance, he was seized with a tit, supposed to be apoplexy, and expired in about an hour, Jan, 19, 1754. See Janne}', Hist, of Priends, iii, 334.
Pemberton, Israel (2), a Quaker philanthropist, was brother of James and John, and grandson of Phin- eas,who came over with Penn,and settled near the Falls of Delaware. Iskael, his grandson, a man of eloquence and liberality, devoted the latter part of his life to acts of benevolence, especially to the Indians. He died at Philadeliihia in 1779, aged G3 years.
Pemberton, John, a devoted Quaker preacher, a native of Philadelphia, and brother of the preced- ing, was born Nov. 27, 1727. John was early inter- ested in the Gospel labors of his society, and travel- led much both in this country and in Europe in the service of his divine Master. His first visit to Europe was in company with John Churchman, in the year 1750; his second was undertaken in 1782, and occupied him until 1789. His return to his relatives and friends after so long an absence was exceedingly gratifying to them all ; but this pleasure was abated hy the early discovery that he came home under a burdened mind, from an apprehension that his duty was not fully per- formed, which occasioned so great distress and conflict as sometimes to affect his bodily health. In his dis- position he was modest; yet when his duty led him among the great and distinguished, his manner was plain, solid, and dignified. To the different ranks of sober people he was open and communicative. To the poor he addressed himself with great tenderness and condescension, and might indeed be said to have been the poor man's confiding counsellor and friend. Like his Lord and Master, he went about continually doing good. He embarked for Amsterdam in the spring of
1794, and on his arrival in that city engaged in religious labors which occupied him some weeks. He then pro- ceeded towards Pj-rmont, in \Vest[(halia, Germany, where there was a monthly meeting of Friends. At Bielefeld he was taken ill with a fever; yet lie recover- ed sufficiently to travel, and reached Pyrmont early in the ninth month. He remained in that vicinity about four months, being in verj' poor health, yet most of the time occupied in religious labors. He died Jan. 31,
1795. See Janney, History of Friends, iv, 80.
Pemble, William, a learned Calvinistic English divine, was born in 1591 ; educated at INIagdalene Col- lege, Oxford: removed to IMagdalcne Hall in 1613, and there became a noted divinity reader and tutor. He appears to have been a good Hebrew scholar, and em- ployed his learning wQ-xy advantageously in explanations of obscure passages of Scripture, and thorough exposi- tions of the first nine chapters of Zechariah and the book of Ecclesiastes. He was a famous preacher, a good orator, an excellent scholar, and an ornament to societj'. He died in 1623. His works were published at London in one vol. fol. (1635; 4th ed. Oxford, 1659), and embrace : Vindicice Fidei, or a Treatise of Justifica- tion by Faith ; A Treatise of the Provide7ice of God ; Snlomon^s Recantation and Repentance, or the Book of Ecclesiastes explained; The Period of the Persian Mon- archy, wherein sundry Places of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel are cleared; A short and sweet Frposition upon the first Nine Chapters of Zecharie ; Sermon on 1 Cor. XV, 19, 20 ; Introduction to the worthy Receiving of the
Lord's Supper ; Fire godly and profitable Sermons ; A Summe of Morall Philosophy. See Wood, A thence Oxon. ; Bickersteth, Christian Student ; Darling, Cyclop. Biblioyr. s. v. ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. A uth. s. V.
Pembroke, Anne, Countess of, a noted English lady philanthropist, was the daughter and sole heir of George Clifford, earl of Cumberland. She was born at Skipton Castle, in Craven, in 1589. To endowments naturally of a high order she added all those accom- plishments which her high rank and extensive wealth brought within her reach. According to bishop Kain- bow, '"she could discourse with virtuosos, travellers, scholars, merchants, divines, statesmen, and good house- wives in any kind." But she preferred " the study of those noble Beroeans, and those honorable women who searched the Scriptures daily ; with Mary, she chose the better part of hearing the doctrine of Christ." She was twice married : her first husband was Richard, earl of Dorset ; her second, Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. She survived the latter forty-five years, during which time she emploj^ed herself in a constant series of good works, extensive charities, and generosity to learned men ; also in erecting sacred edifices, a noble hospital, and many other stately buildings, both for the honor of her family and for the public good. While she was exemplary in her own religious observances, she was careful also that none of her servants shotdd be remiss or negligent in that respect. In her intercourse with others she was condescending, and ever strove to obliterate from their minds any consciousness of inferi- ority. She died in 1674.