John Pemberton John Pemberton John Stith Pemberton ( – ) was an American pharmacist whom is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. In May 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become world-famous as Coca-Cola, but sold his rights to the drink shortly before his death. Pemberton was born on , in Knoxville, Georgia, and spent most of his childhood in Rome, Georgia. His parents were James C. Pemberton and Martha L. Gant. He entered the Reform Medical College of Georgia in Macon, Georgia, and in 1850, at the age of nineteen, he earned his medical
Muriel Pemberton had attracted international attention. Her methods were widely copied, with teachers visiting from all over the globe to study her approach. Her students included Katharine Hamnett, Bruce Oldfield, Bill Gibb and Bjorn Lanberg. In 1993, John Russell Taylor published a biography of her life. In 1941, she married John Hadley Rowe (died 1975). Pemberton died at 56 Vale Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, on 30 July 1993. Muriel Pemberton Muriel Alice Pemberton RWS (8 September 1909 – 30 July 1993) was a British fashion designer, painter and academic. According to "The Independent", she "invented art-school training in fashion in Britain". Muriel