Jeremy Pemberton (Chief Justice)

Jeremy Pemberton (1741 – 14 July 1790) was an English barrister who served a Chief Justice of Nova Scotia from 1788 to 1789.

Biography

The grandson of Sir Francis Pemberton, 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 Archived 2021-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
• Sir Joseph A. Chisholm, “Three Chief Justices of Nova Scotia,” Nova Scotia Historical Society Collections, vol. 28 (1949), pp. 148–58.