Percy Edward Pinkerton

Percy Edward Pinkerton (19 June 1855 – 31 August 1946) was an English translator and poet.

[1][2] Pinkerton published some volumes of poetry: Galeazzo, a Venetian Episode: with other Poems (Venice and London, 1886), which was praised by John Addington Symonds,[3] Adriatica (1894), At Hazebro' (1909), and Nerina, a lyrical drama in three acts (Cambridge, 1927).

He was a member of the late Victorian Lutetian Society, dedicated to unexpurgated translations of the works of Émile Zola.

The Society included Ernest Dowson, Havelock Ellis, Arthur Symons, Victor Plarr and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.

From German From Italian From French From Russian Operas and cantatas In 1909, aged 54, Pinkerton married 41-year-old Emily Harriet, spinster daughter of Rev.

The Porthleven Cemetery headstone on the grave of Pinkerton and his wife Emily Woodgates reads: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF EMILY HARRIET BELOVED WIFE OF PERCY EDWARD PINKERTON. SHE DIED ADVENT SUNDAY XXVII NOVEMBER MCMXXXVIII. ANGELVS E COELO TERRAVM TRANSIIT ORBEM. ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF PERCY EDWARD PINKERTON WHO DIED XXXI AVGVST MCMXLVI AGED XCI YEARS. The Latin translates as "An Angel from Heaven has crossed the Earth."