Henry Killigrew (playwright)

Henry Killigrew (11 February 1613 – 14 March 1700) was an English clergyman and playwright.

According to some writers the final ruin of the Savoy Hospital was due to Killigrew's "improvidence, greed, and other bad qualities".

The hospital was leased out in tenements, and the master appropriated the profits; among the leases granted was one (1699) to Henry Killigrew, the patentee of Drury Lane Theatre, for his lodgings in the Savoy, at a rent of 1 shilling per year for forty years.

[5] A commission appointed by William III reported that the relief of the poor (the hospital's intended purpose) was being utterly neglected.

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