Author Artzybashev Mikhail Petrovich
Percy E. Pinkerton (19 June 1855 – 31 August 1946) was an English translator and poet. 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 Symonds[1]; Adriatica (1894), At Hazebro' (1909) and Nerina, a lyrical drama in three acts (Cambridge, 1927). He also wrote for the Magazine of Art,[2] 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. [3] He translated other works from German, Italian, French, and Russian. Percy Edward Pinkerton was born on 19 June 1855, at Manor Road, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, London, Middlesex. The second child o
...f George Pinkerton (b.1823 Russia [British Subject] - d.1899 Kingston, Surrey) & Mary, née Easum (b.1823 Stepney - d.1868 St. Pancras). His siblings were Eustace (b.1852 Stoke Newington), a member of the London Stock Exchange, the Architect Godfrey Pinkerton (b.1858 Godstone, Surrey - d.1937 Kensington) and Mary (b.1860 Godstone, Surrey) who married the solcitor Gilbert Mainwaring Robinson. Percy's paternal grandparents were Robert (b.circa1785 - d.1845 Newington, Surrey) & Dorothea, née possibly Theakston [4](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).[5] In 1909 Percy married Emily Harriet Woodgates at Kensington, London. [6] and in 1911 they were living at Red Lodge, in Happisburgh, Norfolk.[7] 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. [8] Percy died 31 August 1946, aged 91, at Ealing House, Porthleven, Cornwall [9] and was buried at Porthleven Cemetery alongside Emily. Percy and Emily had no issue. German books Italian books French books Russian books Operas and cantatas English
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