Peter Gally, a French Protestant refugee, was born at Beckenham, Kent, in August 1696.
He was admitted a pensioner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, under the tuition of Mr. Fawcett, 8 May 1714, and became a scholar of that house in the following July.
in 1721, and was upon the king's list for the degree of D.D., to which he was admitted 25 April 1728, when George II visited Cambridge.
[1] In 1721 he was chosen lecturer of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and on 23 November in the same year was instituted to the rectory of Wavendon or Wandon, Buckinghamshire, on the presentation of his father.
He edited Some Thoughts concerning the proper method of Studying Divinity, by W. Wotton, DD.