Holker Abbott

American poet, art connoisseur and amateur dramatist, active in Boston. A leading figure and president of the Copley Society of Boston, he was a member of the Tavern Club and helped organize a 1904 Whistler memorial exhibition. He wrote the libretto for this five-act "Alice in Wonderland" dramatization (Barta Press, 1897, with music by Lewis Sabin Thompson) and later arranged an eleven-scene version of "Alice in Wonderland" for the Copley Society (1912). He was portrayed by John Singer Sargent in 1920.