Jeremy Pemberton (1741 – 14 July 1790) was an English barrister who served a

Chief Justice of Nova Scotia The Court of Appeal for Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia Court of Appeal or NSCA) is the highest appeal court in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. There are currently 8 judicial seats including one assigned to the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. At any g ...

from 1788 to 1789.

Biography

The grandson of

Sir Francis Pemberton Sir Francis Pemberton (18 July 1624 – 10 June 1697) was an English judge and briefly Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the course of a turbulent career. He was imprisoned three times at various points in his career, and as a judge is ...

, briefly Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Jeremy Pemberton was born in Cambridgeshire in 1741. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1762.

References

* https://courts.ns.ca/history_of_courts/history_noframes/chiefjustices.htm * Sir Joseph A. Chisholm, “Three Chief Justices of Nova Scotia,” ''Nova Scotia Historical Society Collections'', vol. 28 (1949), pp. 148–58. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pemberton, Jeremy Colony of Nova Scotia judges 1741 births 1790 deaths