Daniel Bellamy, the elder

Daniel Bellamy, the elder (born 1687) 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.

He was the author of:

• "A Translation of the "Muscipula."'
• 'Thoughts on the Trinity, translated from the French of Lord Morny du Plessis-Marly,'
• 'Love Triumphant, or Rival Goddesses; a Pastoral Drama for Schools.'
• Various dramatic pieces and moral essays, published together as the 'Young Lady's Miscellany,' 1723.
• 'The Generous Mahometan;' a novel.
• 'Moral Tales adapted from Fénelon,' 1729. 7. A Latin edition of the Fables of Phædrus, 1734.
• 'The Christian Schoolmaster,' 1736.

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