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Charles Balquy, AVD. (1708-1767.) 
By S. O. Appy, M.A. 
all too brief as they are, respecting the life of a man 
of letters and a physician of eminence whose name 
has been almost forgotten. Though his later years 
were spent, and the work of his life was done, in another county, 
he was the son of a Derbyshire country gentleman, whose family 
had long been settled in the Peak. Two centuries ago, and later, 
the Balguys were possessed of large estates in Derbyshire. For 
several generations they seem to have been engaged in the pro- 
fession and practice of law, and in adding one estate to another.* 
Thomas Balguy was Recorder of Stamford, and member of 
Parliament for that city from 1597 to 1600. His son John 
Balguy, who in 1634 is described as ‘‘ cousin” to William Earl of 
Exeter,{ occupied his father’s place as Recorder. From the 
Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire branch of the family was 
descended Thomas Balguy, elected Master of the Sheffield 
Grammar School in 1662. John Balguy was Recorder of Derby 
and a Judge on the Welsh circuit. Nicholas Balguy, of Magdalen 
College, Oxford, was Master of the Temple. 
*See Yorkshire Diaries (Surtees Society), and the Register of Admissions at 
Gray’s Inn, now in course of publication in the Collectanea Genealogica. At the 
present day, in Derbyshire, when a question hard to be answered 1s proposed, 
the reply often is, ‘‘That beats Balzuy.” Mr. Benjamin Bagshawe, in an 
excellent paper in Ze Religuary, relates how, upon the death of a member of 
this family, a large box was found in his room so tightly packed with guineas, 
placed edgeways. that they could not be got out. 
+ Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), 1634. 
