Like his father he suffered from delicate health and, even in his
Eton days, made frequent trips to Italy, Sicily, Spain, Egypt and
Palestine in search of the sun. On leaving school and before attaining
his majority, he made two voyages to the South Pacific. The second
voyage, undertaken in 1870, ended in shipwreck and the loss of their
yacht on a coral reef in the Ringgold Islands. Together with his
physician, George Henry Kingsley, Pembroke wrote an amusing account of
their experiences which went into many editions.
In Tahiti they met the famous Queen Pomare, then an old lady. From
Tahiti they went to Eimeo, or Morea, and so to Huahine. There they
were presented with a penal code "elegantly written in and ancient
copy book". "After studying it carefully, we came to the conclusion
that it was all a matter of dollars, and that having dollars you could
do what you liked as at home."
On 19 August 1874, in Westminster Abbey, he married Lady Gertrude
Talbot, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury. In the same year he became
Under-Secretary for War but, finding the train of office too much for
his weak constitution, resigned his post in the following year.
Although he lived for twenty years more, he never again accepted
office. He died childless in 1895 from tuberculosis, aged forty-four,
and was succeeded by his brother Sidney.
 

Source: Leo van de Pas