Calvert, James
, the son of Robert Calvert, a grocer and sheriff of York, was born on the Pavement in that
ancient city. He was educated at Clare-hall, Cambridge,
where he was contemporary with the famous archbishop
Tillotson. He was bred up under Mr. David Clarkson,
and was a graduate in the university. He had been for
several years at Topcliff, when he was silenced by the act
of uniformity after which he retired to York, lived privately, but studied hard; and there it was that he wrote
| his learned book concerning the ten tribes, entitled “
Naphthali, seu colluctatio theologica de reditu decem tribuum,
conversione Judaeorum et mens. Ezekielis,” Lond.
1672,
4to. This book he dedicated to bishop Wilkins, on whom
he waited at
Scarborough Spaw, together with Mr. Williams of
York.
Bishop Wilkins received him with much
respect, and encouraged him to live in hopes of a comprehension. About the year 1675 he became chaplain to
sir William Strickland of Boynton, where he" continued
several years, preaching and educating his son, till both
he and his lady died; then he removed to
Hull, and from
thence into
Northumberland, to sir William Middleton’s,
where he constantly exercised his function as chaplain,
educated his only son, was left tutor to him when his father
died, and was very careful of his education both at home
and in
Cambridge. He died in
December 1698.
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