Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas , nicknamed Bosie, was an English author, poet and translator, better known as the friend and lover of sthete Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wildes influence and his own role as a Uranian poet.

Douglas was born at Ham Hill House in Powick, Worcestershire, the third son of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, and his first wife, Sibyl ne Montgomery. He was his mothers favourite child she called him Bosie , a nickname which stuck for the rest of his life. His mother successfully sued for divorce in 1887 on the grounds of his fathers adultery. The Marquess married Ethel Weeden in 1893 but the marriage was annulled the following year.

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