Calamy, Edmund (1600-1666)

English clergyman. He became chaplain to the Bishop of Ely. Later he left the Anglican for the Presbyterian Church, becoming in 1639 minister of St Mary, Aldermanbury, London. Here he officiated for 20 years, being throughout a supporter of the Royalist cause, and becoming chaplain-in-ordinary to Charles II. He was one of the Presbyterian representatives at the Savoy conference in 1661, but was ejected from his job in the following year under the Act of Uniformity.

Calamy was born in Walbrook, London. He was educated at Cambridge University. He was one of the five compilers of Smectymnuus (1641), a polemical work written in reply to Bishop Hall's Episcopacy by Divine Right (1640).