Occupation Physician Parents Henry Balguy | Name Charles Balguy | |
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Born 1708 Derwent, Derbyshire Died February 28, 1767, Peterborough, United Kingdom Education St John's College, Cambridge | ||
Dr. Charles Balguy (1708 – 28 February 1767) was an English physician and translator.
Balguy was born at Derwent Hall, Derbyshire, and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of M.B. in 1731, and M.D. in 1750. He practised at Peterborough, and was secretary of the literary club there. He contributed to the ' Philosophical Transactions, and in 1741 he published, anonymously, a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. This was the best translation in English at the time and was reprinted several times. He wrote some medical essays, and particularly a treatise
He died at Peterborough and was buried in the chancel of St. John's Church, where there is a marble monument to his memory, describing him as ' a man of various and great learning.' The statement that he translated the ' Decameron ' is recorded by his school friend, Dr. Samuel Pegge, in the College of Arms, who expressly mentions the fact.