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

Rushden Rushden is a market town and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England, around east of Northampton. The parish is on the border with Bedfordshire, north of Bedford. The parish of Rushden covers an area of some . The population of Rushde ...

and Margaret Throckmorton, a daughter Richard Throckmorton of

Higham Ferrers Higham Ferrers is a market town and civil parish in the Nene Valley in North Northamptonshire, England, close to the Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire borders. It forms a single built-up area with Rushden to the south and has an estimated popu ...

. Pemberton greatly benefitted by his marriage and the political influence of

Sir John Stanhope Sir John Stanhope (1559 – 1611) was an English knight and landowner, and father of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield. Career John Stanhope was the son of Sir Thomas Stanhope (d. 1596) of Shelford Manor, Nottinghamshire, and Margaret P ...

the husband of his sister-in-law Margaret Macwilliam. His home was

Hertingfordbury Hertingfordbury is a small village in Hertfordshire, England, close to the county town of Hertford. It was mentioned in the ''Domesday Book''. Hertingfordbury is also the name of a neighbouring civil parish, which does not contain the village. ...

House, where he hosted King James and

Anne of Denmark Anne of Denmark (; 12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619) was the wife of King James VI and I; as such, she was Queen of Scotland from their marriage on 20 August 1589 and Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and En ...

for a day in July 1605. He was Member of Parliament for Higham Ferrers in 1604 and Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1615. He married Susannah, daughter of

Henry Macwilliam Henry Macwilliam (c. 1532 – 1586) was a member of Parliament for Dorchester (1571), Liskeard (1572), Appleby (1584) and Carlisle (1586).Thomas Cheek Sir Thomas Cheek, Cheeke or Cheke (died March 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1614 and 1653. Life Cheek was the son of Henry Cheke and his wife Frances Radclyffe (daughter of Sir Hump ...

, her mother was Mary Cheke. He died on 1 August 1616 of the "new ague or sickness",Norman Egbert McClure, ''Letters of John Chamberlain'', vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 20. and was buried at Rushden. His widow married Thomas Ireland.

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