Lord Alfred Douglas to him in an article on Wilde. Douglas was either plaintiff or defendant in several trials for civil or criminal libel. In 1913 he was charged with libelling his father-in-law. Also in 1913 he accused Arthur Ransome of libelling him in his book "Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study". He saw this trial as a weapon against his enemy Ross, not understanding that Ross would not be called to give evidence. The court found in Ransome's favour and Douglas was bankrupted by the failed libel suit. Ransome did remove the offending passages from the second edition of his book. In the
Alfred Douglas Miller Alfred Douglas Miller Brigadier-General Alfred Douglas Miller (1 March 1864 − 5 December 1933) was a British army officer. Miller was commissioned a lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) on 7 February 1885, and was promoted to the rank of captain on 28 June 1893. He was adjutant of the Royal Scots Greys from 1896 to 1900. With the outbreak of the Second Boer War he was chief staff officer to Sir John French, and on 24 December 1901 he was appointed a Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General on the staff in South Africa. He was promoted major on 20 February