Robert Sherard
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For other people named Robert Sherard, see Robert Sherard (disambiguation).
Robert Harborough Sherard (3 December 1861 – 30 January 1943) was an English writer and journalist. He was a friend, and the first biographer, of Oscar Wilde, as well as being Wilde's most prolific biographer in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Born | Robert Harborough Sherard Kennedy (1861-12-03)3 December 1861 Putney, London |
Died | 30 January 1943(1943-01-30) (aged 81) Ealing, London |
Education | Elizabeth College, Guernsey |
Alma mater | University of Oxford University of Bonn |
Spouses | Marthe Lipska
(m. 1887; div. 1906)Alice Muriel Fiddian
(after 1928) |
Parent(s) | Bennet Sherard Calcraft Kennedy Jane Stanley Wordsworth |
Relatives | Robert Sherard, 6th Earl of Harborough (grandfather) William Wordsworth (great-grandfather) |
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