Ingram Frizer

Ingram Frizer was a servant of Thomas Kyd in London in the sixteenth century. Frizer, a criminal and fighter, became involved in William and Robert Cecil's plot to expel the Spanish-backed Queen Isabella and King Albert from England and restore Queen Elizabeth to her throne. With his colleague, Nick Skeres, Frizer committed several murders of people considered likely to betray the existence of the Cecils' plot to the Spaniards. Some of these people were suggested to Frizer by William Shakespeare.

Frizer lived to see the Cecils' plot succeed, and took part in the pro-Elizabethan uprising which marked its fruition. However, he was killed very shortly thereafter, most likely in a vendetta.