Percy E. Pinkerton
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Percy Edward Pinkerton was an English
translator and poet.
, London
, Middlesex
. He was the third child of George Pinkerton (1823–1899) and Mary Easum (1823–1868). His siblings were Eustace (b.1852 Stoke Newington), a member of the London Stock Exchange, Algernon Robert (b.1853, Stoke Newington - d.1937 Rokeby, Tasmania, Australia), the Architect Godfrey Pinkerton
(b.1858 Godstone, Surrey - d.1937 Kensington) and Mary (b.1860 Godstone, Surrey) who married the solicitor Gilbert Mainwaring Robinson. Percy's paternal grandparents were D.D. Robert (Doctor of Divinity
)(b.circa1785 - d.1845 Newington, Surrey) & Dorothea, née possibly Theakston (b.circa1786 Sarepta, Volgograd, Russia [British Subject] - d.1869 Kingston, Surrey). Percy had further Russian connections as all bar one of his father's seven siblings were also born there. His maternal grandparents were Robert Hayes Easum (b.1796 Stepney, Middlesex - d.1866 Worthing, Sussex) & Elizabeth née Edlin (b.1799 Uxbridge, Middlesex - d.1878 Edmonton, Middlesex).
In 1909 Percy married Emily Harriet Woodgates at Kensington, London. and in 1911 they were living at Red Lodge, in Happisburgh, Norfolk.
Emily Woodgates was born at Putely, Herefordshire December Quarter 1868, the daughter of Rector, James Richard Woodgates (b.1829 Honiton, Devon - d.1886 Thingoe, Suffolk) & Elizabeth, née Moor (b.circa 1845 Great Bealings, Suffolk) daughter of Canon E. J. Moor.
Emily died at St Michael's Hospital, Hayle, Cornwall on the 27 November 1938 and was buried at Porthleven Cemetery on November 30.
Percy died 31 August 1946, aged 91, at Ealing House, Porthleven
, Cornwall and was buried at Porthleven Cemetery alongside Emily.
; Adriatica (1894), At Hazebro (1909) and Nerina, a lyrical drama in three acts (Cambridge, 1927). He also wrote for the Magazine of Art, and in 1889 edited Christopher Marlowe
's plays. However most of his literary work consisted of English translations of European songs and literature. He was a member of the late-Victorian Lutetian Society, a group dedicated to unexpurgated translations of the works of Émile Zola
which also included Ernest Dowson
, Havelock Ellis
, Arthur Symons
, Victor Plarr
and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. He translated other works from German
, Italian
, French
, and Russian
.
Italian books
French books
Russian books
Operas and cantatas
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
translator and poet.
Biography
Percy Edward Pinkerton was born on 19 June 1855, at Manor Road, Stamford Hill, Stoke NewingtonStoke Newington
Stoke Newington is a district in the London Borough of Hackney. It is north-east of Charing Cross.-Boundaries:In modern terms, Stoke Newington can be roughly defined by the N16 postcode area . Its southern boundary with Dalston is quite ill-defined too...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, Middlesex
Middlesex
Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...
. He was the third child of George Pinkerton (1823–1899) and Mary Easum (1823–1868). His siblings were Eustace (b.1852 Stoke Newington), a member of the London Stock Exchange, Algernon Robert (b.1853, Stoke Newington - d.1937 Rokeby, Tasmania, Australia), the Architect Godfrey Pinkerton
Godfrey Pinkerton
Godfrey Pinkerton was a London based British architect.Godfrey Pinkerton was a Fellow of the Royal Institution of British Architects and operated from offices at 2 Gray's Inn Sq, London, WC1.- Genealogy & Personal life :Godfrey Pinkerton was born at Godstone, Surrey in 1858...
(b.1858 Godstone, Surrey - d.1937 Kensington) and Mary (b.1860 Godstone, Surrey) who married the solicitor Gilbert Mainwaring Robinson. Percy's paternal grandparents were D.D. Robert (Doctor of Divinity
Doctor of Divinity
Doctor of Divinity is an advanced academic degree in divinity. Historically, it identified one who had been licensed by a university to teach Christian theology or related religious subjects....
)(b.circa1785 - d.1845 Newington, Surrey) & Dorothea, née possibly Theakston (b.circa1786 Sarepta, Volgograd, Russia [British Subject] - d.1869 Kingston, Surrey). Percy had further Russian connections as all bar one of his father's seven siblings were also born there. His maternal grandparents were Robert Hayes Easum (b.1796 Stepney, Middlesex - d.1866 Worthing, Sussex) & Elizabeth née Edlin (b.1799 Uxbridge, Middlesex - d.1878 Edmonton, Middlesex).
In 1909 Percy married Emily Harriet Woodgates at Kensington, London. and in 1911 they were living at Red Lodge, in Happisburgh, Norfolk.
Emily Woodgates was born at Putely, Herefordshire December Quarter 1868, the daughter of Rector, James Richard Woodgates (b.1829 Honiton, Devon - d.1886 Thingoe, Suffolk) & Elizabeth, née Moor (b.circa 1845 Great Bealings, Suffolk) daughter of Canon E. J. Moor.
Emily died at St Michael's Hospital, Hayle, Cornwall on the 27 November 1938 and was buried at Porthleven Cemetery on November 30.
Percy died 31 August 1946, aged 91, at Ealing House, Porthleven
Porthleven
Porthleven is a town, civil parish and fishing port in Cornwall, United Kingdom, near Helston. It is the most southerly port on the island of Great Britain and was originally developed as a harbour of refuge, when this part of the Cornish coastline was recognised as a black spot for wrecks in days...
, Cornwall and was buried at Porthleven Cemetery alongside Emily.
Writing
Pinkerton published some volumes of his own poetry: Galeazzo, a Venetian Episode: with other Poems (Venice and London, 1886), which was praised by John Addington SymondsJohn Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of male love , which he believed could include pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships. He referred to it as l'amour de l'impossible...
; Adriatica (1894), At Hazebro (1909) and Nerina, a lyrical drama in three acts (Cambridge, 1927). He also wrote for the Magazine of Art, and in 1889 edited Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...
's plays. However most of his literary work consisted of English translations of European songs and literature. He was a member of the late-Victorian Lutetian Society, a group dedicated to unexpurgated translations of the works of Émile Zola
Émile Zola
Émile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism...
which also included Ernest Dowson
Ernest Dowson
Ernest Christopher Dowson , born in Lee, London, was an English poet, novelist and writer of short stories, associated with the Decadent movement.- Biography :...
, Havelock Ellis
Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis , was a British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and...
, Arthur Symons
Arthur Symons
Arthur William Symons , was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.-Life:Born in Milford Haven, Wales, of Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy...
, Victor Plarr
Victor Plarr
Victor Gustave Plarr was an English poet; he is probably best known for the poem Epitaphium Citharistriae....
and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. He translated other works from German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, and Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
.
Translations
German books- William Müller, Field-Marshal Count MoltkeHelmuth von Moltke the ElderHelmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke was a German Field Marshal. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as one of the great strategists of the latter 19th century, and the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field...
, 1800-1878, 1879 - Heinrich DüntzerJohann Heinrich Joseph DüntzerJohann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer , German philologist and historian of literature, was born at Cologne.After studying philology and especially ancient classics and Sanskrit at Bonn and Berlin , he took the degree of doctor of philosophy and established himself in 1837 at Bonn as Privatdozent for...
, The Life of SchillerFriedrich SchillerJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
, 1883
Italian books
- Matteo BandelloMatteo Bandello-Biography:Matteo Bandello was born at Castelnuovo Scrivia, near Tortona , c. 1480 or 1485. He received a good education, and entered the church, but does not seem to have been very interested in theology. For many years he lived at Mantua, and superintended the education of the celebrated Lucrezia...
, Novellieri Italiani. Twelve stories selected and done into English with a memoir of the author, 1892
French books
- Memoirs of Constant, the Emperor Napoleon's head valet, 1896
- Émile Zola, Restless HousePot-BouillePot-Bouille is the tenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized between January and April 1882 in the periodical Le Gaulois before being published in book form by Charpentier in 1883....
, 1924 - Émile Zola, "Pot Bouille" 1894-95 (Lutetian House- London)
Russian books
- Mikhail ArtsybashevMikhail ArtsybashevMikhail Petrovich Artsybashev ; was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism...
, SanineSanin (novel)Sanin is the novel by Russian writer Mikhail Artsybashev. It did have an interesting existing history being written by a 26 year old writer in 1904 - at the pick of the varied changes in Russian society and published and criticized in 1907, the year of one of the most horrific political reactions in...
, 1914 - Mikhail Artsybashev, The millionaire, 1915
Operas and cantatas
- Giacomo PucciniGiacomo PucciniGiacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
, La bohèmeLa bohèmeLa bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto . by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger...
, 1896. Performed for radio in 1930 - Puccini, The witch-dancersLe VilliLe Villi is an opera-ballet in two acts composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Karr's story was in turn based in the Central European legend of the Willis, also used in the ballet Giselle...
, performed at Manchester in 1897 - Niccola Spinelli, A Basso Porto, performed at Brighton in 1900
- Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
, Songs, with pianoforte accompaniment - Ermanno Wolf-FerrariErmanno Wolf-FerrariErmanno Wolf-Ferrari was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as Il segreto di Susanna...
, The new life, 1902 - Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
, Phoebus and Pan - Francis PoulencFrancis PoulencFrancis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...