Thomas Camm

Thomas Camm (1641–1707) was an English Quaker minister and writer. He was imprisoned for not paying tithes in 1674; fined for unlicensed preaching in 1678; and imprisoned, probably for preaching, from 1680 to 1686. He published religious tracts. As both his parents were Quakers, he was raised in their faith, receiving a good education from his father, whose "tender care", says Camm in his Testimony, "was great for the education of me, and the rest of his children". Having been brought up in the Quaker faith, at an early age he became one of its ministers and travelled widely to spread the message; he wrote a number of Quaker works.

Religious persecution Camm suffered imprisonment and other forms of persecution in the Quaker cause. In 1660 he was incarcerated in Lancashire for refusing the Oath of Allegiance. They had two daughters, Mary (later Moore) and Sarah, who died of smallpox and fever at the age of almost nine, an event which was commemorated in a joint work with his wife entitled The Admirable and Glorious Appearance of the Eternal God in and through a Child, 1684.