Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945)
Born 22 October 1870
Died 20 March 1945
Buried Crawley, Sussex
Married 4 March 1902
Olive Eleanor Custance
He wrote a number of brilliant
sonnets, collected in "In Excelsis"
(1924) and "Sonnets and
Lyrics" (1935). He is rememberd for his
association with Oscar Wilde,
to which his father objected, thereby
provoking Wilde to bring
the ill-advised libel action which led to his
own arrest and imprisonment.
Source: Chambers's Biographical Dictionary
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