Max Pemberton

Sir Max Pemberton (19 June 1863 – 22 February 1950) was a popular English mystery and adventure novelist, biographer and publisher. He was also a prolific editor and worked for various popular periodicals and magazines including Chums and Cassell's Magazine.

Life

Max Pemberton was born in Paddington on 19 June 1863. He was educated at St Albans School, Merchant Taylors' School, and Caius College, Cambridge. A clubman, journalist and dandy (Lord Northcliffe admired his "fancy vests"), he frequented both Fleet Street and The Savage Club.

Pemberton married Alice Tussaud, who was the granddaughter of Madame Marie Tussaud, on 9 February 1885. They had seven children together. In 1924, she was granted a divorce under the previous year's Matrimonial Causes Act, alleging that Max had begun living with another woman, Joan Berrill, in 1913. Pemberton subsequently remarried to Berrill.

Death

Pemberton died at his home in London on 22 February 1950. He was buried at St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green.

Honours

Pemberton was knighted in the 1928 Birthday Honours, gazetted on 1 June 1928.