Lord Alfred Douglas Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Lord Alfred Douglas? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Lord Alfred Douglas from Wilde 1997 and what is the personality traits.
ESFP (7w8)
Lord Alfred Douglas personality type is ESFP, according to the Myers-Briggs personality indicator.
All this makes him a born leader, and he made a name for himself as a successful entrepreneur (he founded several hotels and restaurants).
But the truth is, his life has been anything but typical. He was a classic case of an extremely bright man who never really had the chance to put his abilities to good use.
It's something he and his father and brother and sister, and later his wife (and mother-in-law), all lamented over. "I've always regretted that my talents haven't been stretched," he said.
"I consider myself a very clever person who's done nothing with my cleverness — that's rather sad."
What's sad is that while he might have been one of the most talented men of the century, he became one of the most tragic.
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas was an English poet and journalist best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde. While at Oxford, he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, which carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, with whom he started a close but stormy relationship. Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred the affair and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality. Wilde sued him for criminal libel, but some intimate notes were discovered and he was later imprisoned. On his release, Wilde briefly lived with Douglas in Naples, but they had separated by the time Wilde died in 1900. Douglas married poetess Olive Custance in 1902. They had a son, Raymond. Converting to Roman Catholicism in 1911, Douglas repudiated Wilde's homosexuality and in a High-Catholic magazine, Plain English, expressed openly anti-Semitic views, while rejecting the policies of Nazi Germany.
