25mm. 7.45g. Gold. Unsigned.
Awarded to The Reverend Joseph Hardwick Pemberton for Rose, Moonlight, August 1913.
Once cleaned. Mounted on suspension loop, Good Very Fine and rare. Housed in contemporary fitted case. Accompanied by a 2nd edition (1920) copy of Roses: Their History, Development & Cultivation, by J.H Pemberton, along with some magazine cuttings and postcards relating to Pemberton.
Joseph Pemberton (1852–1926) was a British rosarian, remembered for creating the hybrid musk class of cultivated roses. He was born in 1852 in The Round House, Havering-atte-Bower, Romford, Essex; he lived there with his sister Florence until his death in 1926. He was an Anglican clergyman for more than 30 years. A keen amateur rose grower, he joined the Royal National Rose Society shortly after its founding, and in 1911 served as its president. After his retirement in 1914, Pemberton turned to rose breeding in an attempt to recreate the "Grandmother's roses" he recalled from childhood. He set up Pemberton Nursery at Romford and nearby where eventually some 35–40,000 roses were grown annually for sale. All the roses of the Pemberton Nursery were bequeathed to their gardeners, who at Romford were Jack and Ann Bentall. They released several new roses after Pemberton's death.
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