Thomas Calvert

Thomas Calvert (1606–1679) was an English Nonconformist divine in Derbyshire and York.

Life Thomas Calvert was born at York in 1606, and educated at St Peter's School, York and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He served as chaplain of Sir Thomas Burdet, in Derbyshire, for some time, and afterwards held the vicarage of Trinity Church in the King's Court at York.

During the Commonwealth he held one of the four preacherships endowed by the Crown at the minster, besides the living of Allhallows, York. He was ejected from his living in 1662, was banished from York by the Five Mile Act, and "withdrew to the good Lady Berwicks, near Tadcaster."

He returned to York, where he died in March 1679, aged seventy-three. He had a son by whose extravagances he was much troubled, but found a congenial companion in his nephew James Calvert, and corresponded with the chief scholars of the time. He was well read in Hebrew.