BALGUY, JOHN, an eminent English divine, born at Sheffield, in Yorkshire, in 1686. He was admitted of St John's College, Cambridge, in 1702; and having taken the degrees of B.A. and M.A., he soon after quitted the university. In 1711 he obtained a small living, and in 1729 was preferred to the vicarage of Northallerton, which he retained till his death in 1748. Besides sermons and various theological tracts, he published a philosophical work 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 collected by the author into one volume, and published with a dedication to Bishop Hoadley.