John Hey (1734–1815) was an English cleric, the first Norrisian Professor of Theology at Cambridge.
After Sedbergh School, he entered Catharine Hall, Cambridge in 1751, graduating B.A.
His lectures on morality were admired, and were attended by William Pitt the younger.
According to the regulations then in force, he might have been elected for another term if he had resigned in 1794, before reaching the age of 60, but declined to do so.
[1] Hey's Norrisian lectures in divinity represented the difference between the Church of England and unitarians as little more than verbal, but defended subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles.
[1] Winning the Seatonian prize for a poem in 1763, Hey published it as The Redemption: a Poetical Essay.