Lord Alfred Douglas (1855–1905), was an author, war correspondent for the "Morning Post" during the First Boer War, and a feminist. In 1890, she published a novel, "Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900", in which women's suffrage is achieved after a woman posing as a man named Hector D'Estrange is elected to the House of Commons. The character D'Estrange is clearly based on Oscar Wilde. In 1891, Douglas's cousin Lionel Johnson introduced him to Oscar Wilde; although the playwright was married with two sons, they soon began an affair. In 1894, the Robert Hichens novel "The Green Carnation" was published. Said to be
Lord Alfred Spencer-Churchill Baron Calthorpe and Lady Charlotte Sophia Somerset, on 5 February 1857. Together they had four children. Lord Alfred Spencer-Churchill Lord Alfred Spencer-Churchill DL (24 April 1824 – 21 September 1893) was a British Conservative politician. Spencer-Churchill was the son of George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Jane Stewart, daughter of George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway. He served as an officer in the Oxfordshire Yeomanry, eventually becoming a lieutenant-colonel. He served as the Member of Parliament for Woodstock between 1845 and 1847, and again from 1857 to 1865. He also served as a Justice of the Peace and