Robert Ludlam (c. 1551 – 24 July 1588) was an English priest, martyred in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, in 1575, and remained there for two or three years, but left without taking a degree.
An unnamed source, quoted in Hayward,[3] says that he was On 12 July 1588, Robert Ludlam and fellow priest Nicholas Garlick were arrested at Padley, home of Catholic recusant, John Fitzherbert.
[4] In Derby Gaol, Ludlam and Garlick met with another priest, Richard Simpson, who had been earlier condemned to death but had been granted a reprieve, either, as stated by most sources, including Richard Challoner,[5] because he had given some hope that he would attend a Protestant service, or, as suggested by Sweeney,[6] because the Queen may have given orders to halt the persecution of priests to remove the threat of invasion from Spain.
[9] Robert Ludlam, Nicholas Garlick, and Richard Simpson were declared venerable in 1888, and were among the eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987.