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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde.At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
Lord Drumlanrig died from a gunshot wound, unmarried and without children. Douglas's second son, Lord Percy Douglas (1868–1920), succeeded to the peerage instead. [8] Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, his third son, was a close friend of famous author and poet Oscar Wilde. Eventually it became known that Lord Alfred and Wilde had engaged in sexual ...
Born in Cummertrees, Dumfries, Scotland, he was the second son of the 9th Marquess of Queensberry and brother of Lord Alfred Douglas, the lover of Oscar Wilde.From the death of his elder brother Francis in 1894 until his father's death in 1900, he was styled Viscount Drumlanrig.
Born at 8 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, London, [1] Drumlanrig was the eldest son of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, by his first wife Sibyl, daughter of Alfred Montgomery. As the heir apparent of the Marquess, he used the courtesy title Viscount Drumlanrig.
Olive Eleanor Custance (7 February 1874 – 12 February 1944), also known as Lady Alfred Douglas, [1] was an English poet and wife of Lord Alfred Douglas. She was part of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, and a contributor to The Yellow Book .
The bitter feud between Lord Alfred's father the Marquess of Queensberry and his son resulted in Wilde suing the Marquess for libel at Douglas's urging. Subsequently, Wilde was charged with homosexuality after the Marquess produced evidence of Wilde's behaviour as justifying the libel.
Hamilton was born in Pimlico, London.He was the son of Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton and his wife Nina (née Poore).He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a Blue in boxing and also rowed for the university.
In 1891, Wilde began his intimate friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, a young, vain aristocrat. As the two grew closer, family and friends on both sides urged Wilde and Douglas to lessen their friendship. Lord Alfred's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, often argued with his son about the topic.