# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-ainslie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:29:20.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-ainslie"
name: "Douglas Ainslie"
slug: "douglas-ainslie"
description: "Douglas Ainslie, was a Scottish poet, translator, critic and diplomat. He was born in Paris, France, and educated at Eton College and at Balliol and Exeter Colleges, Oxford. A contributor to the Yellow Book, he met and befriended Oscar Wilde at age twenty-one while an undergraduate at Oxford. He was also associated with other such notable figures as Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Pater and Marcel Proust. The first translator of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce into English, he also lectured on Hegel. He was identified as the \"Dear Ainslie\" recipient of twelve letters written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1895 - 1896, which were auctioned by Christie's in 2004."
tagline: "Poet, translator, critic, diplomat (1865–1948)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1865"
deathDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.88
  momentum:             1.184210526315789
  historical:           6.136393333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "دوجلاس اينسلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Ainslie"
    title: "Douglas Ainslie"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Ainslie"
    title: "Douglas Ainslie"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Ainslie"
    title: "Douglas Ainslie"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Эйнсли, Дуглас"
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  - url: "https://gl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Ainslie"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump