It is possible he may have been a relative of a "Caesar Calandrinus" mentioned by Wood as one of the many foreigners who had studied at Exeter College, Oxford, during the Rectorship of Dr.Prideaux (1612-1641), and who was afterwards "a Puritanical Theologist," intimate with Usher, a Rector in Essex, and finally minister of the parish of Peter le Poor in London, where he died in 1665, leaving a son named John.

Wood speaks of him as a German (Wood, Ath.III.

269, and Fasti, I.393-4); but the name is evidently Italian.

Indeed I find that there had been an intermarriage in Italy between the Diodati family and a family of Calandrinis, bringing some of the Calandrinis also to Geneva about the year 1575.

(Reprint, for private circulation, of a Paper on the Italian ancestry of Mr.
William Diodate of New Haven, U.S., read before the New Haven Colony Historical Society, June 28, 1875, by Edward E.Salisbury, p.