Balguy

Balguy, John, born at Sheffield, 1686, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, was ordained in 1711. He took an active part in theological controversy, and his work, Letters to a Deist, attracted the attention of Dr. Clarke and Archbishop Hoadley. He obtained the living of Northallerton, and a prebendal stall at Salisbury, and died in 1748.