BALGUY, JOHN, an eminent English divine, was born at Sheffield in Yorkshire in August 1686. He was admitted of St John's College, Cambridge, in 1702, and in 1705-6 took his bachelors degree, soon after which he quitted the university. In 1711 he obtained a small living, and in 1729 was preferred to the vicarage of Northallerton, in which preferment he remained till his death in 1748. Besides Sermons, an Essay on Redemption, a treatise entitled Divine Rectitude, or a brief Inquiry concerning the Moral Perfections of the Deity, and some other theological tracts, he published a philosophical piece on the Foundation of Moral Goodness, written in answer to Dr Hutcheson's work on the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. Some of these pieces were, by the author himself, collected into one volume, and published with a dedication to Bishop Hoadley.