Francis William Pember

Francis William Pember JP (1862–1954) was a British lawyer and University of Oxford academic, where he served as Vice-Chancellor.

Francis Pember was the son of Edward Henry Pember KC JP. He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 21 October 1880. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1889. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1884, Estate Bursar from 1910–14, and Warden from 1914–32. He was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1926–29.

Pember was an Officier Légion d'honneur.

He married in 1895, The Hon. Margaret Bowen Davey, daughter of Horace Davey, Baron Davey. Their daughter Katharine Pember would marry Charles Galton Darwin in 1925.

He was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on 24 January 1954.

External links

• Portrait, Oxford
• Pember, Francis William (1862–1954) Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, Janus archive, University of Cambridge

Academic offices
Preceded by Sir William Reynell Anson	Warden of All Souls College, Oxford 1914–1932	Succeeded by Frederick John Napier Thesiger, Viscount Chelmsford
Preceded by Joseph Wells	Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1926–1929	Succeeded by Frederick Homes Dudden