Hey, John Dd

Hey, John D.D.

a learned English divine, was born in 1734, and was educated at Catharine Hall, Cambridge. After holding several preferments, he became Norris professor of divinity at Cambridge in 1780, then pastor of Passenham (Northamptonshire) and of Calvertoin (Buckinghamshire), and died at London in 1815. His writings, which are generally acute and judicious, include Essay on Redemption (1763, 4to): — Lectures in Divinity (Camb. 1796, 4 vols. 8vo; 3rd edit. 1841, 2 vols. 8vo): — Discourses on the Malevolent Sentiments (Newport, 1801, 8vo): — Thoughts on the Athanasian Creed (1790, 8vo): — Observations on the Writings of St. Paul (1811, 8vo). — Darling, Cyclop. Bibliographica, 1, 1459.