Max Pemberton

This article is about the adventure/mystery novelist. For the UK doctor and journalist, see Max Pemberton (doctor).

Sir Max Pemberton
"A Puritan's Wife" Pemberton as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair. February 1897
Born	19 June 1863(1863-06-19) Paddington, London, England [1][2]
Died	22 February 1950(1950-02-22) (aged 86) London, England
Occupation	Journalist and author
Nationality	United Kingdom
Alma mater	Merchant Taylors' School Caius College, Cambridge.
Notable work(s)	The Iron Pirate
Notable award(s)	Knight Bachelor
Spouse(s)	Alice Agnes Tussaud

Sir Max Pemberton (19 June 1863 – 22 February 1950) was a popular British novelist, working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres. He was educated at St Albans School, Merchant Taylors' School, and Caius College, Cambridge.^[3] A clubman, journalist and dandy (Lord Northcliffe admired his 'fancy vests'), he frequented both Fleet Street and The Savage Club.

Pemberton was the editor of boys' magazine Chums during its heyday. Between 1896 and 1906 he also edited Cassell's Magazine (see [1]), in which capacity he published the early works of R. Austin Freeman and William Le Queux.

His most famous work The Iron Pirate was a bestseller during the early 1890s and it launched his prolific writing career (see below). It was the story of a great gas-driven iron-clad, which could outpace the navies of the world and terrorized the Atlantic Ocean. Other notable works included Captain Black (1911).

During January 1908, Pemberton had a story entitled Wheels of Anarchy published by Cassell & Company (London). This story was based upon notes that were written by Bertram Fletcher Robinson shortly before he died in January 1907.^[4] It is an adventure tale about anarchists and assassins that is set across Europe. The novel’s hero and narrator, Bruce Driscoll, a recent Cambridge graduate, appears to be modelled upon Fletcher Robinson. Wheels of Anarchy by Max Pemberton was republished in December 2010.^[5]

In 1920, Pemberton founded the London School of Journalism, wrote a biography about Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and was knighted. He was married to Alice Tussaud, granddaughter of Madame Marie Tussaud and daughter of Joseph Tussaud.

Sources

• New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors

References

1. ^ General Register Office index of births registered in July, August, September 1863 - Name: Pemberton, Max District: Kensington Volume: 1A Page: 9.
2. ^ Note: He sometimes gave his place of birth as Edgbaston, Birmingham (his mother was from Birmingham)
3. ^ Pemberton, Max in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
4. ^ "Fletcher Robinson, Pemberton & Doyle". BFRonline.BIZ. http://www.bfronline.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=9. Retrieved 2009-07-24. 
5. ^ "Wheels of Anarchy by Max Pemberton". http://www.amazon.com/dp/1907685316. Retrieved 2010-12-22. 

• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Early Detective Stories, ed. Hugh Greene (Penguin, 1971)

External links

• Max Pemberton books [2].

Persondata
Name	Pemberton, Max
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	19 June 1863
Place of birth	Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
Date of death	22 February 1950
Place of death	London, England

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