CALVERT, THOMAS:
English Hebrew scholar; born 1606; died at York March, 1679. He wrote "The Blessed Jew of Morocco" (York, 1648), an adaptation of the well-known letter of Samuel Maroccanus, itself probably derived from the polemical treatise of Samuel Abu Nasr ibn Abbas.
Bibliography:
- Dict. National Biography, viii. 274, 275;
- Palmer, Nonconformist Memorial, iii. 458, 459.
