Balgay

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Dr Balgay, the author of the annexed Latin composition, affords a striking proof of them. He was the only child of the Rev John Balguy, of whom I will first mention some particulars. He was a native of Sheffield, and born about 1686.

Having received the first rudiments of instruction from his father, who was the master of a Free Grammar School in that place, in 1702 he was admitted of St John's College, Cambridge where he regularly graduated; and in 1711 entered into holy orders, and diligently discharged the duties of his profession in the livings of Lamesley and Tanfield, in the county of Durham, composing, it is said, a discourse for the pulpit every week for the space of several years. He was Prebendary of Salisbury, and in 1729 was presented to the Vicarage of North Allerton. He was in his time a considerable controversialist; was held in high estimation as a divine, and published several discourses and other works.

He died at Harrowgate in the year 1748.