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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Hey, Richard (1745-1835), Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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- Richard Hey, LLD
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Description area
Dates of existence
22 August 1745 - 7 December 1835
History
Matriculated 1764; 3rd Wrangler, 1768 and Chancellor’s Medalist. Fellow and Tutor, 1782, but later apparently a non-resident Fellow, who was primarily an author. Apart from publishing studies on civil liberties, gaming and duelling, suicide, happiness (a reply to Tom Paine’s Rights of Man), Egyptian mummification, and the promotion of Christianity in India, he also wrote a tragedy, The Captive Monarch in 1794, and a novel, Edington in 1796).
His younger brother Samuel was President of the College, 1778-1786, but is not the subject of a College portrait.