Martin Lluelyn
Martin Lluelyn (1616–1682; ''alias'' Llewellin) was a poet, physician and soldier from a family of old Welsh extraction long established in
Wells, Somerset. Born in London to a long-serving Steward of
St Bartholomew's Hospital who was also an expert Cartographer, he took his degrees at the
University of Oxford in the 1630s and 1640s, and remained there with a studentship until 1648, performing military service on behalf of the
King, who made his college of
Christ Church a headquarters during the
Civil War. During this time a substantial volume of his English poetry was published which, showing great versatility and facility in comic, satirical and elegaic moods, and a strong
Royalist sympathy, gained a popular readership. He also published Latin poetry. Ejected from Oxford in 1648, he moved to London to practice physic, was awarded M.D., and worked on medical texts with
William Harvey and
Christopher Bennet. At the time of the Restoration (which he celebrated with verses) he became a Fellow of the Society of Physicians and was sworn Physician to the King, and from 1660-1664 was Principal of
St Mary Hall, Oxford, receiving a commission as a University
Visitor. In 1664 he left Oxford and settled into civic life in
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, becoming Mayor of that Borough in 1671/72. He was chosen to represent the Borough in 1681 when presenting a loyal address to the King.
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