Calderon de la Barca, the great Spanish dramatist, born at Madrid; entered the army, and served in Italy and Flanders, producing the while dramas which were received with great enthusiasm; took holy orders, and became a canon of Toledo, but to the last continued to write poems and plays; he was a dramatist of the first order, and has been ranked by the more competent critics among the foremost of the class in both ancient and modern times (1600‒1681).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Calder, Sir Robert * Calderwood, David