Calamy, Benjamin (1642–1686)

English prebendary of St Paul's. Calamy was educated at St Paul's and at Cambridge University. He became chaplain-in-ordinary to the king, Charles II (c. 1677). His Discourse about a Doubting Conscience appeared in 1683; the Nonconformists accepted it as a challenge, and replied with De Laune's A Plea for the Nonconformists, which cost its author his life, in spite of Calamy's intercession.