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Edmund Calamy (5 April 1671 – 3 June 1732) was an English Nonconformist churchman and historian. ==Life== 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).〔Calamy, "An historical Account of my life, with some reflections on the times i have lived in, 1671-1731, ed. J.T.Rutt, 2nf ed.,(1830), 300-1.〕 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. In October 1702 he was chosen one of the lecturers in Salters' Hall to replace Nathaniel Taylor, but refused a permanent post. He remained Williams' assistant until June 1703. Finally, 1703 he succeeded Vincent Alsop as pastor of a large congregation in Tothill Street, Westminster. His friendship with Dr Williams was important for his development as a historian. He was appointed one of the original trustees of the Presbyterian Fund in 1703. And on the foundation of Dr Williams Charity, was his legacy trustee. This enabled the construction of the library in Red Cross Street, Calamy preaching the sermon on 28 October 1731. Although Calamy was an authoritative historian of the religion, the family papers are said to have been lost in 1870, on the death of his great-grandson. What remains as a source of his life in the Autobiography. Subsequent Victorian editions of his original publications were re-appraised and in 1830 a more fundamental interpretation of the original publications. In 1709 Calamy made a tour through Scotland with the approval of Charles Spencer, later Earl of Sunderland. He preached in New Church, Edinburgh. He was conferred with honorary doctorates, and had the degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred on him by the universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow. Calamy's first wife died, and he married again on 14 February 1716, to Mary Jones. She was from an old independent military family, a niece of Adam Cardonel, secretary to the Duke of Marlborough. Calamy was a moderate Presbyterian, following the Baxterian theology, of the civil war diarist, Richard Baxter. He died on 3 June 1732, having been married twice and leaving six of his thirteen children to survive him. His eldest son, was Edmund Calamy (1698-1755). He was buried on 9 June at St Mary's Aldermanbury. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edmund Calamy (historian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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