Pemberton, Max (1863–1950)

English novelist. His best-known books are The Iron Pirate 1893 and its sequel Captain Black 1911. Others include The Sea Wolves 1894, The Impregnable City 1895, Kronstadt 1898, Pro Patria 1901, My Sword for Lafayette 1906, and The Great White Army 1915. He founded the London School of Journalism 1920. Knighted 1928.

Pemberton was born in Birmingham and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1885 he joined the staff of Vanity Fair and was editor of Chums 1892–93 and of Cassell's Magazine 1896–1906. In 1920 he became a director of Northcliffe newspapers and in 1922 published a memoir of Lord Northcliffe, with whom he had been associated for many years.