CALAMY, EDMUND, known as "the elder" (1600-1666), English Presbyterian divine, was born of Huguenot parents in Walbrook, London, in February 160o, and educated at Pembroke hall, Cambridge, where his opposition to the Arminian party, then powerful in that society, excluded him from a fellowship. Nicholas Felton, bishop of Ely, however, made him his chaplain, and gave him the living of St. Mary, Swaffham Prior, which he held till 1626. He then removed to Bury St. Edmunds, where he acted as lecturer for ten years, retiring when his bishop (Wren) insisted on the observance of certain ceremonial articles. In 1636 he was appointed rector (or perhaps only lecturer) of Rochford in Essex, and in 1639 to the perpetual curacy of St. Mary Alder manbury in London, where he had a large following. He de fended the Presbyterian cause, and had a principal share in writing Smectymnuus, against Bishop Joseph Hall's presentation of episcopacy. The initials of the names of the several contribu tors formed the name under which it was published, viz., S. Marshal, E. Calamy, T. Young, M. Newcomen and W. Spurstow. Calamy took an active part in the Westminster Assembly, and found in Presbyterianism the middle course which best suited his views of theology and Church government. He opposed the execution of Charles I., lived quietly under the Commonwealth, and was assiduous in promoting the king's return ; he declined the bishopric of Coventry and Lichfield, but became one of Charles's chaplains, and vainly tried to secure the legal ratifica tion of Charles's declaration of Oct. 25, 166o. He was ejected for Nonconformity in 1662, and died after the Great Fire on Oct. 29, 1666. His grandson, Edmund (1671-1732), a Noncon formist minister, was a prolific writer, the best known of his works being An Account of the Ejected Ministers (1702), and an Autobiography (posthumously published, 5829).