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Richard Hey

1754–1835

English academic, essayist, and barrister.

Educated at Cambridge, Hey was a practicing barrister and academic. While at the university, he received prizes for his influential moral dissertations on the evils of gaming, duelling, and suicide. A fellow at Magdalene College, he also wrote political philosophy—notably countering Richard Price on America—alongside novels and plays. He spent his life bridging law, ethics, and literature.