biography
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Queensberry, Sir John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquess of
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| lived:
| (1844–1900)
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| biography:
| British aristocrat, a keen patron of boxing, who supervised the formulation in 1867 of new rules to govern that sport, since known as the Queensberry Rules. In 1895 he was tried and acquitted for publishing a defamatory libel on Oscar Wilde - an event which led to Wilde's trial and imprisonment. |
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