Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 187020 March 1945), nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet, translator, and political commentator, better known as the friend and lover of Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet. Politically he would describe himself as "a strong Conservative of the 'Diehard' variety". Douglas was born at Ham Hill House in Powick, Worcestershire, the third son of The Most Hon. The 9th Marquess of Queensberry and his
Lord Alfred Douglas a contributing editor. "Plain English" ran until the end of 1922. Douglas would later admit that its policy was "strongly anti-Semitic". From August 1920 (issue No 8) "Plain English" began publishing a long running series of articles called "The Jewish Peril" by Major-General Count Cherep-Spiridovitch the title of which was taken from the fore-title of George Shanks's version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". "Plain English" advertised (from issue 20) The Britons' second edition of Shank's version the Protocols. Douglas challenged the "Jewish Guardian", published by the League of British Jews, to take him to court suggesting they