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. He is known for his poem A Recantation of an Ill Led Life, and his play The Soddered Citizen. 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.