Sir Francis Pemberton 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 considered to have shown strong bias for or against defendants in some of the important trials of political figures he presided over.
- Occupation
- judge
- Position held
- Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, member of the House of Lords, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
- Born
- July 18, 1624, 1625
- Died
- June 10, 1697