Ingram Frizer

Ingram Frizer (/ˈɪŋɡrəm ˈfraɪzər/ ING-grəm FRY-zər; died August 1627) was an English gentleman and businessman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who is notable for his reported killing[1] of the playwright Christopher Marlowe in the home of Eleanor Bull on 30 May 1593.[2] He has been described as "a property speculator, a commodity broker, a fixer for gentlemen of good worship" and a confidence trickster gulling "young fools" out of their money.[3]

  1. ^ Nicholl, Charles (1993). The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe. University of Chicago Press. pp. 327–328. ISBN 0-226-58024-5. "According to the official story – the story told by Skeres and Poley – it was Marlowe who pulled the knife and Frizer who killed him in self defence...I believe that in this, as in so much else in their careers, Skeres and Poley were lying...Ingram Frizer may well have struck the fatal blow. It is probable, though not certain, that he did."
  2. ^ Hotson, Leslie (1925). The Death of Christopher Marlowe. London: Nonesuch Press. p. 22. OCLC 459421025.
  3. ^ Nicholl (1993: 25)