CHARLES BALGUY, M.D. 13 
finally left the Peak district, after some centuries of residence 
there. The exterior of the house itself remains nearly as it was 
when first built. The gardens seem to have been little altered, 
the old trees are there, and the quaint and narrow bridge spans 
the Derwent. The Duke has added many rooms to the house, 
and he has filled it with specimens, more or less genuine, of old 
oak furniture. He has clothed its inner walls with oaken panels 
and carved work which once adorned picturesque mansions of the 
Elizabethan or Jacobean period.* But we cannot make antiquity, 
and this miscellaneous collection of curious furniture, however 
rare and valuable some of the articles may be, forms no part of 
the history of Derwent Hall. 
Charles Balguy was educated at the Chesterfield Grammar 
School, under the Rev. William Burrow, M.A. For many years 
the masters of this school were men of the first literary eminence, 
and the school maintained a high reputation during the latter half 
of the seventeenth, and nearly the whole of the eighteenth century. 
A writer in 1762 says that *‘the school is reckoned the most con- 
siderable of any in the north of England, and sends great numbers 
of men to the universities, particularly to Cambridge.” Amongst 
others who were educated under the care of Mr. Burrow were 
Ellis Farneworth, the translator of Machiavel ; Halifax, Bishop of 
Gloucester; Dr. John Jebb, an eminent physician of the last 
century ; and Erasmus Darwin, M.D., grandfather of the author of 
“The Origin of Species.” Dr. Samuel Pegge,t the antiquary, 
and Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, were also educated at this 
school.f 
Leaving the Chesterfield Grammar School at the age of eighteen, 
* Some of the finest of the oak wainscot was removed from Norton House, 
Derbyshire, pulled down by Mr. Charles Cammell in 1877. 
+ He was about three years older than Dr. Balguy, having been born at 
Chesterfield, 5th November, 1704. Admitted pensioner of St. John’s College, 
Cambridge, 30th May, 1722. He was sworn fellow of St. John’s, 21st March, 
1726, O. S., Balguy being at that time an undergraduate at the same College. 
Pegge’s father was a lead merchant in Chesterfield, and Mayor of that town. 
His mother was Gertrude, daughter of Francis Stephenson, of Unston, near 
_ Dronfield. : 
+See Hall's Aistory of Chesterfield (ed. 1839), p. 191, et seg. 
