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 nameSpeakes one hath few competitors in fame:A name soe Great, soe Generall't may scorneInscriptions whch doe vulgar tombs adorne.A diminution 'tis to write in verseHis 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 expireTill all things else at th'universall fire.This verse is lost, his PILL Embalmes him safeTo future times without an Epitaph