Clement Paman

Clement Paman (d.1664) was an English poet and clergyman of the 17th century sometimes associated with the Cavalier Poets in the tradition of Ben Jonson and Thomas Carew. He was described in 1994 as "perhaps the most talented poet of the seventeenth century never to have had a poem published over his name."

He was probably born in Dalham, Suffolk. The Paman family are listed in the parish registers of nearby Chevington and his father Robert Paman is noted in a 1740 book as having lived at Dunstall Green, Dalham, Suffolk. The Pamans appear to have been well-off but untitled country gentry. Manuscripts survive of letters he sent to his brother, also called Robert. It also seems likely that he was related to the physicist Henry Paman who was his contemporary at Cambridge.

Clement Paman was an early student of the Puritan Sidney Sussex College (founded 1596) at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a BA in 1632, an MA in 1635 and later Doctor of Divinity. William White in The Book Collector follows Alumni Cantabrigienses in saying Paman was 16 when he first matriculated in 1631/2, making his date of birth c.1615.

He became a personal chaplain, initially to Sir Henry North, 1st Baronet. A manuscript at Harvard University identifies him as later being the chaplain to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, the Lord Deputy of Ireland. Later in his career, he was prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1661 to 1663 and Dean of Elphin Cathedral, Ireland between 1662 and his death in 1664. He has a memorial at Sidney Sussex College.

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