Sir
Goddard Pemberton
Member of Parliament
for Higham Ferrers
In office
1604–1614
Preceded byHenry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester
Succeeded byRowland St John
Personal details
Died(1616-08-01)August 1, 1616
Cause of deathIllness
Resting placeRushden
SpouseSusannah
Parents
  • Robert Pemberton (father)
  • Margaret Throckmorton (mother)

Sir Goddard Pemberton (d. 1616) was an English landowner and Member of Parliament.

He was the son of Robert Pemberton of Rushden and Margaret Throckmorton, the daughter of Richard Throckmorton of Higham Ferrers.[1]

Pemberton greatly benefitted by his marriage and the political influence of Sir John Stanhope, the husband of his sister-in-law Margaret Macwilliam. His home was Hertingfordbury House, where he hosted King James and Anne of Denmark for a day in July 1605.[2]

He was Member of Parliament for Higham Ferrers in 1604 and Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1615.

He married Susannah, daughter of Henry Macwilliam and widow of Edward Saunders.[3] Some sources say she was the daughter of Sir Thomas Cheek, her mother was Mary Cheke.

He died on 1 August 1616 of the "new ague or sickness",[4] and was buried at Rushden. His widow married Thomas Ireland.

References

  1. ^ PEMBERTON, Sir Goddard (c.1573-1616), of Hertingfordbury, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
  2. ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1828), pp. 517-9.
  3. ^ PEMBERTON, Sir Goddard (c.1573-1616), of Hertingfordbury, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
  4. ^ Norman Egbert McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 20.


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