Henry Killigrew

Dr Henry Killigrew (1613-1700) was the son of Robert Killigrew and the younger brother of the dramatist Thomas Killigrew. Henry was chaplain and almoner to the duke of York, and master of the Savoy after the Restoration.

A juvenile play of his, The Conspiracy, was printed surreptitiously in 1638, and in an authenticated version in 1653 as Pallantus and Eudora.

He married Judith and had three children:

• Henry Killigrew (d. 1712), an admiral
• James Killigrew, also a naval officer, who was killed in an encounter with the French in January 1695
• Anne Killigrew (1660-1685), poet and painter, who was maid of honour to the duchess of York, and was the subject of an ode by Dryden, which Samuel Johnson thought the noblest in the language.