Life
He was born at Pudsey, near Leeds, on 22 August 1745, the younger brother of John Hey and William Hey. He became a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1768. In 1771 he took the degree of Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) as fellow of Sidney Sussex College, and in 1779 Legum Doctor (LLD) per lit. reg. In 1771 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple. He was admitted to Doctors' Commons, but obtaining no practice retired from the bar. [1] [2]
Pudsey is a market town in West Yorkshire, England. Once independent, it was incorporated into the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in 1974. It is located midway between Bradford city centre and Leeds city centre. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 22,408. It also lends its name and sits in the local Leeds City Council ward of Pudsey and Pudsey parliamentary constituency.
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Works
In 1776 Hey published Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty and the Principles of Government. His major work was the Dissertation on the Pernicious Effects of Gaming, awarded a prize of fifty guineas from the University of Cambridge. The first edition appeared at Cambridge in 1783, and the third in 1812. Hey in 1784 won a second prize, offered by the same anonymous donor, by his Dissertation on Duelling, which also reached a third edition in 1812. His Dissertation on Suicide gained him a third prize of 50 guineas. It was first printed in 1785, again in 1812, when the three dissertations were published together.
In 1792, Hey's Happiness and Rights appeared at York appeared in reply to the Rights of Man by Tom Paine. He also wrote a tragedy in five acts The Captive Monarch (1794) which was published in 1794 (with a scenario based on the fate of Louis XVI), [3] and in 1796 Edington, a novel, in two volumes. His last work was Some Principles of Civilisation, with detached thoughts on the Promotion of Christianity in British India, Cambridge, 1815. [1]
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Hey contributed papers to Philosophical Transactions and other magazines. He assisted in editing a pamphlet on an Egyptian mummy, with anatomical and other details. [1]
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