There he met Walter Dorning Beckton, a future president of The Royal Philatelic Society, London, James H. Abbott and many other members of what was called The Manchester School.
[2] There he was able to participate in larger auctions, where the bidders were sometimes given alcoholic drinks to encourage the bidding, and he was able to make many contacts.
[3] In 1897 Pemberon was able to buy part of the collection of Adelaide Lucy Fenton (who wrote under the pen name Fentonia), one of the first lady collectors, with whom his father had frequently crossed swords in the pages of Stamp-Collector's Magazine, according to Percival, without ever knowing that Fentonia was a woman.
[3][4] From 1900 Pemberton's business included the Philatelic Journal of Great Britain, which he also edited.
[4] Pemberton had wide collecting interests and wrote on most countries in the fifty volumes of the Philatelic Journal of Great Britain, but his principal interest was the first stamps of Greece, about which he wrote and corresponded extensively.