Surname: Le Gallienne Forename(s): Richard Thomas b. 20 January 1866. d. 15 September 1947. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Born in Liverpool. Educated at Liverpool College.
Reviewer for The Academy and The Star. Friends with Oliver Wendell Holmes and Wilson Barrett. Had a brief homosexual affair
with Oscar Wilde. A founding member of the Rhymers’ Club, although left the group
in 1892. Emigrated to the U. S. in 1903, moving to Paris in 1930. Poetry volumes include
My Ladies Sonnets (1887), Volumes in Folio (1892). Biographical information: ODNB; Neil Mckenna, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde (Basic Books, 2005) pp. 85-91. (SCM, BGL)