The Pedants' Society

Fellow No. 00062

Dr Cornelius Pemble

Admitted March 1873 · F.

Maintained a 38-year correspondence with The Spectator on the proper use of "whence". The Spectator published one letter, in 1898, with a subediting alteration he never forgave.

Struck Off, July 1910. Reason: publication of a paper containing the construction 'amount of people'.
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