Geoffrey Martin

Geoffrey Martin was an English actor in the sixteenth century and a member of the acting troupe Lord Westmoreland's Men. In 1597 he was approached by William Shakespeare in a roundabout way to see if Martin would be willing to become a coconspirator of Shakespeare's as Shakespeare wrote Boudicca. Martin, a devout Catholic, revealed that he did not want to see Queen Elizabeth restored because she was a Protestant, and Shakespeare realized he could not be trusted with the secret of the Boudicca Plot. Shakespeare therefore named Martin to Nick Skeres as a threat to the plot's security. Skeres in turn gave the name to Ingram Frizer, and Frizer murdered Martin.