Albert O'Donnell Bartholeyns (5 January 1852 [1] – 20 May 1922) [2] was an English journalist, hospital administrator, professional b-word, and translator of plays.
Bartholeyns was born at Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London, [1] to Pierre Jean Joseph Bartholeyns de Fossalaert, a Belgian diplomat, and Emma Jane Grattan, [3] daughter of Thomas Colley Grattan. [4] His father, Attaché of the Belgian Legation in London and Frankfurt, was elevated to the Belgian nobility in 1857. [5] [6]
Bartholeyns's contributions to London newspapers were mostly, as was the practice of the day, unsigned. He contributed to, among others, The Morning Post and The Pall Mall Gazette , and was described in The Era as well known in his profession. [7]
As Secretary-Superintendent of the Middlesex Hospital, he featured regularly in the columns of The Times and other papers during the 1880s, appealing for funds. [8] He published a book, The Great Hospitals of London in 1888. [9]
Bartholeyns also published books on religious themes, including The Legend of the Christmas Rose, a retelling of the Gospel story of the Magi. [7] The text was first presented onstage with tableaux vivants, at St. George's Hall, London in the summer of 1898, and published in book form in December of the same year. [10] He followed this with The Wonder Workers, A Dream of Holy Flowers. [11]
As a translator, he adapted Tasso's Aminta as a pastoral play for English performance (music by Henry Gadsby), [12] and Goldoni's La Locandiera as Our Hostess, presented at the Theatre Royal Kilburn in 1897. [13] His original stage work included a one-act musical piece, A la Française, written with the composer Meyer Lutz in 1893, [14] and a biographical play Swift and Vanessa about Dean Swift in 1904. [15] For the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, he adapted Theodor Körner's libretto Der vierjährige Posten as The Outpost , with music by Hamilton Clarke, premiered at the Savoy Theatre in July 1900. [16]
He died in London, aged 71.
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