English aristocrat and writer Lord Alfred Douglas was BOTD in 1870. The younger son of the Marquess of Queensbury, he studied at Oxford University, disappointing his father by writing poetry, editing a homoerotic journal, failing to take a degree and consorting with homosexuals. In 1894, he met the playwright Oscar Wilde, who nicknamed him “Bosie”. They quickly became lovers, with Wilde picking up the tab for Bosie’s rent boys and gambling debts. Bosie also insisted on translating Wilde’s play Salomé, despite not being able to speak French. In 1894, his elder brother Francis died in a shooting accident, widely rumoured to be suicide over fears that his affair with the Prime Minister Lord Rosebery would be exposed. An enraged Queensbury publicly accused Wilde of “posing as a somdomite”. Wishing revenge on his father, whom he blamed for Francis’ death, Bosie persuaded Wilde to sue Queensbury for libel. Wilde lost the case and was subsequently tried and imprisoned for gross indecency. At his trial, Wilde quoted a line of one of Bosie’s poems, The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name, which later became a code for male homosexuality. After Wilde’s release in 1897, he and Bosie reunited briefly before Bosie returned to England. In 1902, Bosie married his lesbian friend Olive Custance and somehow managed to produce a son. He converted to Roman Catholicism, publicly repudiating his relationship with Wilde and publicly feuding with Wilde’s friend Robbie Ross, making several attempts to have Ross arrested. He also became a virulent anti-Semite, briefly imprisoned in 1924 after accusing Winston Churchill of involvement in a Zionist plot to lose World War One. His final years were spent in poverty, until his death in 1945, aged 74. He has been portrayed multiple times onscreen, notably by John Fraser in The Trials of Oscar Wilde and by Jude Law in the 1997 biopic Wilde.