Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was a 19th century Irish writer of some renown.

Biography
During his days at the University of Oxford an alien spread a disease to him that turned him into a Vampire. Returning home to Dublin, he infected Florence Balcombe with the disease. Some twenty years later he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol where the prison doctor experimented on him. After the Doctor cured Wilde of his vampirism, he then left for Paris. (DWAM: Bat Attack!)

In Paris, he was met by Iris Wildthyme and the Doctor, in a previous incarnation. (EDA: The Scarlet Empress)

Other Mentions and References
In a yet earlier incarnation, the Doctor recalled having met Wilde. (ST: The Clanging Chimes of Doom) Later the Doctor mentioned having met George Bernard Shaw at a party hosted by Wilde (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles).

In his tenth incarnation, the Doctor claimed (in jest) that his first incarnation had got his walking stick in an adventure involving Wilde and "midget assassins". (IDW: The Forgotten)