Lord Alfred Douglas

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British member of the peerage, an essayist, poet, satirist and autobiographer. He was the author of "My Friendship with Oscar Wilde," 1914 and "Oscar Wilde, A Summing Up," 1940. Lord Alfred was bisexual and a dandy, the notorious lover of Oscar Wilde in 1891, when he was age 21 and Wilde was age 37. His dad, with whom he had a bitter enmity, started legal action. Wilde went to trial and was convicted of the crime of homosexuality, and was sent to prison in 1895 a broken man. Following Wilde's release (19 May 1897), the two reunited in August at Rouen, France, but stayed together only a few months owing to personal differences and the various pressures on them. After Wilde's death in 1900, Douglas established a close friendship with Olive Eleanor Custance, an heiress and poet. They married on 4 March 1902 and had one son, Raymond Wilfred Sholto Douglas, born on 17 November 1902. Their marriage was all but over by the end of the 1920s, although they never divorced. Douglas died of congestive heart failure on 20 March 1945, in Lancing, West Sussex, England. Link to Wikipedia biography