Pembroke, Kentucky, was not named for any of the earls of Pembroke as is sometimes claimed but for the character of Pembroke Somerset who appeared in the popular 1803 novel "Thaddeus of Warsaw", which described the 1790s uprisings in Poland. There is an all-male dorm on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, Pembroke Hall, that is named after this city, as an original Trustee of the building was from the city.