Lord Alfred Douglas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lord Alfred Douglas

English poet, translator and prose writer

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1870

Place of Birth: Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 20-Mar-1945

Profession: writer, poet, translator, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) was a British poet and journalist best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde. While studying at Oxford, he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, which carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, with whom he started a close but stormy relationship.
Douglas’s father, the Marquess of Queensberry, disapproved strongly of the affair, and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality.
Wilde sued him for criminal libel, but some of his intimate notes were discovered, and he was duly jailed.
On his release, he briefly lived with Douglas in Naples, but they were separated by the time Wilde died in 1900. Douglas married Olive Custance in 1902, and they produced a son Raymond.
Converting to Roman Catholicism in 1911, he openly repudiated Wilde’s homosexuality, and in a High-Catholic magazine, Plain English, he expressed views that were openly anti-semitic, though he rejected the extreme policies of Nazi Germany.
He was also jailed for libelling Winston Churchill over claims of wartime misconduct. Douglas wrote several books of verse, some of it classified in the homoerotic Uranian genre.
The phrase "The love that dare not speak its name" came from one of Douglas’s poems, though it is widely misattributed to Wilde.



Description	British-Irish photographer, author and writer
Date of birth/death	10 July 1864	21 February 1938
Location of birth/death	Dromahair, Ireland	Brighton
Work period	1902-1932
Work location	London
Authority control	: Q983504 VIAF: 6958662 ISNI: 0000 0000 5227 571X ULAN: 500098233 LCCN: no92010798 Oxford Dict.: 53502 WorldCat