Richard Hey

In 1771 he took the degree of Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) as fellow of Sidney Sussex College, and in 1779 Legum Doctor (LLD) per lit.

His major work was the Dissertation on the Pernicious Effects of Gaming, awarded a prize of fifty guineas from the University of Cambridge.

Hey in 1784 won a second prize, offered by the same anonymous donor, by his Dissertation on Duelling, which also reached a third edition in 1812.

He also wrote a tragedy in five acts The Captive Monarch (1794) which was published in 1794 (with a scenario based on the fate of Louis XVI),[3] and in 1796 Edington, a novel, in two volumes.

His last work was Some Principles of Civilisation, with detached thoughts on the Promotion of Christianity in British India, Cambridge, 1815.