James Albery

 ( 1838 Births ) 

Albery was the author of a large number of other plays and adaptations, including Coquettes (1870); Pickwick, a four-act drama based on Dickens's The Pickwick Papers (1871); The Pink Dominos (1877), a farce that ran for an extremely successful 555 performances and was one of a series of adaptations from the French which he made for the Criterion Theatre, where his wife, the actress and theatrical manager Mary Moore (who after his death became Lady Wyndham (1861–1931)), played the leading parts; Jingle (a farcical version of Pickwick), produced at the Lyceum in 1878; and Oriana (with music by Frederic Clay).

His one-act operetta, The Spectre Knight, with music by Alfred Cellier, was produced by Richard D'Oyly Carte's opera company and ran as a companion piece to Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer and then H.M.S. Pinafore at the Opera Comique in 1878 and on tour.Walters, Michael and George Low. " The Spectre Knight", Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 7 August 2019 Albery also wrote a book called Where's the Cat? in 1880.

Albery and Moore had three sons: Irving Albery, who became a Conservative Member of Parliament, Bronson Albery, a theatre director after whom the Albery Theatre is named, and Wyndham Albery, a socialist activist. Their granddaughter through Irving was Jessica Albery (1908–1990) an architect and town planner, one of the first professional women architects in the UK. Albery wrote this epitaph for himself:

• 1870 – Two Roses

• Albery's plays are collected in a two-volume edition at the British Library at 2303 f. 14.
• The Dramatic Works of James Albery, together with a sketch of his career, correspondence bearing thereon, press notices, casts, etc. 2 Volumes. Peter Davies, London, 1939.

• Midis and cast list for The Spectre Knight