Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was a 19th century Irish author and playwright.

Biography
During his days at the University of Oxford, an alien infected Oscar with a disease that turned him into a vampire. Returning home to Dublin, he passed the disease to Florence Balcombe. Some twenty years later, he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol where the prison doctor experimented on him. After the Tenth Doctor cured Wilde of his vampirism and he was released from prison, Wilde left for Paris. (DWA: Bat Attack!) Iris Wildthyme and an unknown incarnation of the Doctor earlier than the eighth met him at some point after his arrival in Paris. (EDA: The Scarlet Empress)

In Washington, D.C. on 14 April 1865, Wilde was impersonated by Robert Knox in the lead-up to assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The Sixth Doctor realised the incongruity immediately since, as he told his companion Evelyn Smythe, Wilde was "still in short trousers" in 1865. (BFA: Assassin in the Limelight)

He lived in London with his wife Constance and their two children during the early 1890s. By this time, he had written a widely read novel entitled The Picture of Dorian Gray in addition to being a successful playwright. Having been supplied with tickets by Professor Claudius Dark, Henry Gordon Jago, Leela and Ellie Higson attended the premiere of his latest play A Woman of No Importance at the Haymarket Theatre. Wilde was accompanied to the premiere by his close friend Lord Alfred Douglas. Warren Gadd, who observed him in Douglas' company, threatened to tell Constance that Wilde had a terrible secret which he was keeping from her if he did not cooperate. (JAL: Beautiful Things)

Behind the scenes

 * According to The Brilliant Book 2012, a book that contains non-narrative based information, in River Song's World Wilde was available on social-networking sites and was friends with Charles Dickens.
 * In real life, Wilde was infamously imprisoned for committing homosexual acts under then-Draconian British law. His homosexuality is alluded to JAL: Beautiful Things.