Lord Alfred Douglas
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Lord Alfred Douglas (Alfred Bruce Douglas 1870–1945, referred to as Bosie) was a poet, better known as the lover of Oscar Wilde.
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Lord Alfred was the third son of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry. He was educated at Winchester College and studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, but did not take a degree. In 1891, while he was still an undergraduate, his cousin Lionel Johnson introduced him to Oscar Wilde, who was by then a successful author. They began a torrid affair, which was to lead to Wilde's downfall.
