John Clavell | |
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 A portrait of John Clavell from 1628 by William Marshall | |
| Born | c. 1601 Wootton Glanville, England |
| Died | 1643 |
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| Years active | c. 1621–1643 |
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John Clavell (c. 1601–1643) was a highwayman, writer, lawyer, and medical doctor.[1] He is known for his poem A Recantation of an Ill Led Life, and his play The Soddered Citizen.[2] His life is mainly split into two parts: his early life in England, where he grew up, lived as a highwayman, and started his reformation, and the latter part of his life in England and Ireland where he was a lawyer and physician.[3]
- ^ "John Clavell," in: The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Sixth Edition, Margaret Drabble, ed., New York, Oxford University Press, 2000.
- ^ John H. P. Pafford, John Clavell 1601–1643: Highwayman, Author, Lawyer, Doctor, Oxford, Leopard Head's Press, 1993.
- ^ Donald Lawless, "John Clavell, 1603-42 Highwayman, Author, and Quack Doctor," Notes and Queries. 4. (January 1957), p. 1.