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Title in the Peerage of England
a title in the Peerage of England

Pembroke College, Cambridge, established in 1347, is named for its founder, Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke, (1303–1377), wife of Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke of the third creation. Pembroke College, Oxford, is named for William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, of the tenth creation, Chancellor of the University of Oxford at the time of its founding in 1624. Pembroke College in Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, U. S., was named for Pembroke College, Cambridge, the alma mater of Roger Williams, the Puritan founder of Providence Plantations. The city of Pembroke Pines, Florida, is thought to have been named after the Earl of Pembroke, an early landowner in Broward County. Pembroke, New Hampshire, was named after the ninth Earl by Governor Benning Wentworth. Pembroke, Kentucky, was not named for any of the earls of Pembroke as is sometimes claimed, but for the character of Pembroke Somerset who appeared in the popular 1803 novel Thaddeus of Warsaw, which described the 1790s uprisings in Poland. There is an all male dorm on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, Pembroke Hall, that is named after this city, as an original Trustee of the building was from the city. Pembroke, Ontario, is named in honour of Secretary of State for the Colonies Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, younger son of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke of the tenth creation. Pembroke Parish, Bermuda, is named for William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, of the tenth creation. Pembroke, Malta, was named for Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke of the tenth creation, and was authorised in 1859 by Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, his younger brother, then Secretary at War.