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Lord Alfred Douglas

1870 - 1945

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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship. Douglas's father, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred it and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lord Alfred Douglas has received more than 2,460,070 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Lord Alfred Douglas is the 1,488th most popular writer (down from 1,389th in 2019), the 1,146th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,097th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 2.5M

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  • 58.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lord Alfred Douglas ranks 1,488 out of 7,302. Before him are Tomi Ungerer, Avienus, Adam de la Halle, Thoinot Arbeau, Allen Carr, and Dmitry Merezhkovsky. After him are Evelyn Waugh, Marianne Weber, Heiner Müller, Adam Oehlenschläger, Stéphane Hessel, and Gil Vicente.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Lord Alfred Douglas ranks 44. Before him are Aleksandr Kuprin, E. M. Antoniadi, Princess Henriette of Belgium, Jan Smuts, François Georges-Picot, and Jaime, Duke of Madrid. After him are Marianne Weber, Bernard Baruch, Gustav Landauer, Archduchess Louise of Austria, Kitaro Nishida, and Michael Rostovtzeff. Among people deceased in 1945, Lord Alfred Douglas ranks 111. Before him are Takeichi Nishi, Charles Spearman, Helmuth James von Moltke, Franz Hössler, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, and Werner Ostendorff. After him are Richard Glücks, Wilhelm Rediess, Takijirō Ōnishi, Leonid Pasternak, August Hirt, and Robert Brasillach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lord Alfred Douglas ranks 1,146 out of 8,785. Before him are Warren Hastings (1732), Allen Carr (1934), Domnall mac Ailpín (812), John Austin (1790), Lord Randolph Churchill (1849), and Francis Walsingham (1532). After him are Evelyn Waugh (1903), Jeremy Clarkson (1960), Kiefer Sutherland (1966), Keira Knightley (1985), Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836), and Oldfield Thomas (1858).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lord Alfred Douglas ranks 132. Before him are Winifred Wagner (1897), Colin Dexter (1930), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Vita Sackville-West (1892), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), and Allen Carr (1934). After him are Evelyn Waugh (1903), John Gay (1685), Michael Moorcock (1939), Hugh Lofting (1886), Sister Nivedita (1867), and Alistair MacLean (1922).

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