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Edmund Calamy
(1697?-1755)
Dissenting minister in London
The last of four remarkable churchmen of the same name, Edmund
Calamy graduated with an
MA in 1717, eight years after the University had awarded its first-ever
DD to his father (the Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow did the same
a few weeks later). Edmund III, a friend of Principal William Carstares,
had been visiting the Scottish universities with a view to sending
his eldest son to one of them, Oxford and Cambridge being closed to
Dissenters.
On his graduation Edmund IV presented 12 theological works written
by his father and other members of the family. After Edinburgh he continued
his studies at Leiden before returning to London, first to assist his
father at Tothill Street, Westminster and later to assist Benjamin Grosvenor
at Crosby Square. He was a member of the Presbyterian board, and a trustee
of Dr Williams' Foundation. He retired in 1749 and, at his death was
buried in the chancel at the parish Church of St Mary Aldermanbury.
There were to be two more Edmunds, neither of whom was ordained in any
church, and a Michael Calamy who was ordained.
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