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Sholto Osborne Gordon Douglas (1873-1934) was an author. The son
of Captain William Grant Douglas, RN, he was a descendant of the 14th
Earl of Morton.
Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling
himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, (22 July
1860 – 25 October 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer,
eccentric - and notable homosexual.
Those of whom it is either speculated or surmised that they had sexual
relations with Rolfe – Aubrey Thurstans, Sholto Douglas, John ‘Markoleone’,
Ermenegildo Vianello and the other Venetian gondoliers – were all
sexually mature young men between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one,
with the exception of Douglas.
This was Sholto Osborne Gordon Douglas, educated at Fettes College,
Portsmouth Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford, author of A Theory
of Civilization (1914) and of several volumes of poetry, most notably
Ungodly Jingles (1923). who was considerably older).
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