Royal commentator Charles Rae has labelled Prince William as Sir David Attenborough's "sorcerer's apprentice", pointing out that the environmental torch is being passed between generations. The royal ...

Sir William Wilde, Oscar’s father, was a celebrated eye surgeon and one of the leaders of the Irish Celtic Revival. He was also a travel writer, a naturalist and a fine amateur archaeologist.

The answer, it seems, lies on Sir William Wilde himself. As a prominent doctor with a reputation to upkeep, he did not want the news of his illegitimate children and their ghastly death to spread.

Sir William’s whole life fell apart after the trial. Lady Wilde stood by him, but he lost interest in his profession, “became dirtier, uglier, more abrupt” as time went on.

Like her husband, the eminent physician Sir William Wilde, Speranza belonged to Ireland's intellectual, as well as social, aristocracy. Sir William had been a friend of the novelist Maria ...

His father, Sir William Wilde, knighted in 1864, was a noted eye and ear surgeon and amateur archaeologist (and also man about town, fathering three illegitimate children by two different mothers ...

His parents, Sir William Wilde, a distinguished eye surgeon, and his mother, a noted woman of letters nicknamed Speranza, hosted Dublin’s leading artistic salon.

Mary kept up this campaign until the trial six months later, tarnishing Sir William’s reputation. 3. Oscar’s mother, Lady Jane Wilde, was involved in Ireland’s 1848 uprising.

Since I was a boy, I have been an avid admirer of both the works of Oscar Wilde and the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. About 10 years ago, I picked up a copy of the autobiography of Arthur Conan ...

His mother, Jane Wilde, was a successful poet and Irish nationalist whose pen name was "Speranza." Wilde's father Sir William Wilde was also an author but was more well known for his work as an ...

OUTSIDE No 1 Merrion Square in Dublin there is a plaque which honours an extraordinary man, an “aural and ophthalmic surgeon, archaeologist, ethnologist, antiquarian, biographer, statistician ...