What Famous English Character Writer Was Murdered In The Tower Of London? Who Commited The Murder?

Sir Thomas Overbury
Sir Thomas Overbury (1581 – September 15, 1613), English poet and essayist, and the victim of one of the most sensational crimes in English history, was the son of Nicholas Overbury, of Bourton-on-the-Hill, and was born at Compton Scorpion, near Ilmington, in Warwickshire.
“…….It was not known at the time, and it is not certain now, how far Rochester participated in this first crime, or whether he was ignorant of it. But the Queen, by a foolish phrase, had sown discord between the friends; she had called Overbury Rochester’s “governor.” It is, indeed, apparent that Overbury had become arrogant with success, and was no longer a favourite at Court. Lady Essex, however, was not satisfied with having had him shut up; she was determined that “he should return no more to this stage.” She had Sir William Wade, the honest Governor of the Tower, removed to make way for a creature of her own, Sir Gervaise Elvis (or Heiwys); and a gaoler, of whom it was ominously said that he was “a man well acquainted with the power of drugs,” was set to attend on Overbury. This fellow, afterwards aided by Mrs Turner, the widow of a physician, and by an apothecary called Franklin, plied the miserable poet with sulfuric acid in the form of copper vitriol.
But his constitution long withstood the timid doses they gave him, and he lingered in exquisite sufferings until September 15, 1613. ……”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_…