page_title: Lionel Lockyer
section_title: Death and monument
hierarchical_section_title: Lionel Lockyer / Death and monument
caption_attribution_description: Monument of Lionel Lockyer in Southwark Cathedral Wellcome Images Keywords: Lionel Lockyer
context_page_description: Lionel Lockyer, sometimes spelled Lionel Lockier, was a 17th-century quack doctor famous for his miracle pills that he claimed included sunbeams as an ingredient. He was born in the Southwark area of London. He has a tomb in Southwark Cathedral.
context_section_description: Lockyer died on 26 April 1672. He is interred in Southwark Cathedral where he has a prominent monument in the north transept featuring a large semi-recumbent figure of himself. 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
  Following Lockyer's death, his pills continued to be sold by Lockyer's nephew, John Watts, in partnership with Thomas Fyge, an apothecary. The pills were sold wholesale in tins of 50 or 100 at a price of 4 shillings for 100.
caption: Monument of Lionel Lockyer in Southwark Cathedral. Wellcome Library collections.
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