BALGUY, Thomas, D.D., son of the above, was born in 1716. After studying in St John's College, Cambridge, he was in 1746 presented to the rectory of North Stoke, in Lincolnshire. He afterwards became archdeacon of Salisbury, and of Winchester, in succession. He was offered the bishopric of Gloucester in 1781, but was prevented from accepting it by the declining state of his health. He was afterwards afflicted with blindness, and died at Winchester in January 1795. Besides sermons and charges, he was the author of a very able and well-known work, entitled
Divine Benevolence asserted, and vindicated from the Reflections of Ancient and Modern Sceptics, 8vo, 1782.