Lord Alfred Douglas Douglas's feelings towards Wilde began to soften. He wrote in "Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up" that "Sometimes a sin is also a crime (for example, a murder or theft), but this is not the case with homosexuality, any more than with adultery". Throughout the 1930s and until his death Douglas maintained correspondence with many people, including Marie Stopes and George Bernard Shaw. Anthony Wynn wrote the play "Bernard and Bosie: A Most Unlikely Friendship" based on the letters between Shaw and Douglas. One of Douglas's final public appearances was his well-received lecture to the Royal Society of Literature on 2
William IV, Lord of Douglas William IV, Lord of Douglas William, Lord of Douglas (died 1333) was a short-lived Scottish nobleman, the son of Sir James Douglas and an unknown mother. Little is known of Lord Douglas's life which, after his father's death in Spain in 1330, he spent under the guardianship of Sir Archibald Douglas. There are records of transactions occurring in the exchequer accounts of the Lord Chamberlain of Scotland in 1331 that refer to "Willelmus dominus de Duglas". There is also a record of a complaint by the monks of Coldingham Priory to David II against the Lord of Douglas and his