Daniel Bellamy, the elder


Daniel Bellamy, the elder was an English miscellaneous writer. The son of Daniel Bellamy, scrivener of London, he was born in the parish of St. Alartin's, Ironmonger's Lane, on 25 December 1687. He entered Merchant Taylors' School on 12 March 1702, and matriculated as a commoner of St. John's College, Oxford, on 4 March 1706. In consequence of a reverse of fortune he was forced to leave Oxford without taking a degree in 1709, and became a conveyancer's clerk.

Works

He was the author of:
He also began a translation of Bernard Picart's Ceremonies. In some other works he was associated with his son Daniel Bellamy, the younger.