Edmund Calamy (historian)
| Edmund Calamy | |
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Edmund Calamy the Younger
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5 April 1671 London, England |
| Died | 3 June 1732 (aged 61) |
| Education | University of Oxford |
| Known for | Nonconformist churchman and historian |
Edmund Calamy (5 April 1671 – 3 June 1732) was an English Nonconformist churchman and historian.
A grandson of Edmund Calamy the Elder, he was born in the City of London, in the parish of St Mary Aldermanbury. He was sent to various schools, including Merchant Taylors', and in 1688 proceeded to the university of Utrecht. While there, he declined an offer of a professor's chair in the University of Edinburgh made to him by the principal, William Carstares, who had gone over on purpose to find suitable men for such posts.
After his return to England in 1691 he began to study divinity, and on Richard Baxter's advice went to Oxford, where he was much influenced by William Chillingworth. He declined invitations from Andover and Bristol, and accepted one as assistant to Matthew Sylvester at the meeting court house, Blackfriars(1692). He was offered a good position in Bristol with £100 but refused to leave London, settling with Thomas Reynolds in Hoxton square, assistant deacon to Joseph Howe. Resolved on his arminianim, Calamy wanted to be ordained into the Catholic church, on a full accommodation between Presbyterians and independents. Calamy's claim to fame came because he encouraged 5 ejected ministers, of whom he was the historian, and Daniel Williams to be ordained in secret; but with the tacit foreknowledge of Lord Somers.
In June 1694 he was publicly ordained at Samuel Annesley's meeting-house in Little St Helen's, and soon afterwards was invited to become assistant to Daniel Williams in Hand Alley, Bishopsgate. On 19 December 1695, he married Mary, daughter of Micahel Watts (1636-1708), a merchant haberdasher. Although in charge of the congregation he dissented from full ordination.
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