“As a model of what may and may not properly be said or written on any subject, Shakespeare will always be good enough for me.”
About Alfred Douglas
22 October 1870–20 March 1945
Alfred Bruce Douglas was born on 22 October 1870 at Ham Hill House, near Powick in Worcestershire, into a family whose rank, wealth, volatility, and theatrical public reputation would shape his life almost as powerfully as his literary gifts. He was the third son of John Sholto Douglas, ninth Marquess of Queensberry…