Robert Richard Pembroke, (1 November 1907 - 3 October 1998) was a Professor of Classics and an Etymologist, most known for his life-long work, Lingua Latina: A Study of Etymology (1956), in which he listed the Latin and Ancient Greek origins of all the English words known at that time. Apart from this revolutionary work, widely respected and referred to by classicists nowadays, little has remained of Pembroke, although it is believed that many other studies of Etymology at the time were carried out under his supervision. It is known that Pembroke had a wife and two children, and that, towards the latter stages of his life, he travelled to France, in order to study the Etymology of words of the French language. Pembroke returned to England in 1989, and died in his home in London on 10 March 1998.
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