Biography of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde (real name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) was born on October 16th, 1854 in Dublin. His father, William Robert Wilde, was an eminent eye doctor, with an interest in myths and folklore. He was the founder of the first eye and ear hospital in Great Britain, as well as the appointed Surgeon Occultist to the Queen, who knighted him. His mother, Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde, was a poet who wrote patriotic Irish verse under …

…In 1899 he was baptized by the Roman Catholic Church. He died on November 30th, 1900, in Hotel d'Alsace in Paris, suffering from cerebral meningitis. Among his last words were, 'It's the wallpaper or me - one of us has to go.' He was buried at Pere LaChaise cemetery in Bagneaux. Lord Alfred Douglas was one of the attendees at his funeral. In 1912 a monument to him was erected at the gravesite by an anonymous woman.