Men of Kent and Kentishmen/William Pemble
William Pemble,
DIVINE,
Was born, according to Fuller, in Sussex, but according to Anthony à Wood, in Kent, "at Egerton, as I have been informed." He was educated at Magdalen College, where he became "a famous preacher, a well studied artist, a skilful linguist, a good orator, an expert mathematician, and an ornament to the society in which he lived." He was a zealous Calvinist, but not a Noncomformist. He died at the early age of 32, 14th April, 1623. During this short life, however, he was the author of several learned works, which were collected and published in 1635. His Latin treatise "De Formarum Origine," is said, by Wood, to have been largely drawn up by Adrian Heerebord, in his work on the Aristotelian philosophy, entitled "Meletemata Philosophica." He was buried at Eastington, in Gloucestershire.
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss, "Fuller's Worthies," and "Moreri's Dictionary."]