Balguy, JOHN, a liberal divine, was born at Sheffield in 1686, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1718 he published two pamphlets in defence of Bishop Hoadley; his later works are defences of Dr Clarke's views against Shaftesbury, Tindal, and other deists. His Essay on Redemption (1741) showed a rationalistic tendency. Hoadley gave him a Salisbury prebend in 1727; and the chapter of Durham the Yorkshire vicarage of Northallerton in 1729. He died at Harrogate in 1748.
Balguy, JOHN
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