Lionel Lockyer

Lionel Lockyer (c.1600 – 26 April 1672) was a 17th-century quack doctor who was famous in his time for his miracle pills that he claimed included sunbeams as ingredients. He was born in the Southwark area of London. He has a tomb in Southwark Cathedral. The epitaph reads:

Here Lockyer: lies interr'd enough: his name Speakes one hath few competitors in fame: A name soe Great, soe Generall't may scorne Inscriptions whch doe vulgar tombs adorne. A diminution 'tis to write in verse His eulogies whch most mens mouths rehearse. His virtues & his PILLS are soe well known.. That envy can't confine them vnder stone. But they'll surviue his dust and not expire Till all things else at th'universall fire. This verse is lost, his PILL Embalmes him safe To future times without an Epitaph