Alexander Gowrie was born on 26 November 1939 in Ireland. He was married to Adelheid Gräfin von der Schulenburg and Alexandra Bingley. He died on 24 September 2021 in the UK.
[on W.H. Auden in later life] Prone to chant curious mantra - 'Yeats was not my idea of a gentleman' or 'Peeing in the washbasin is a male privilege' - he smelt like a forgotten cheese.