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Henry Gally
1696–1769
An 18th-century English clergyman and classical scholar, he moved easily between church life, translation, and literary criticism. His surviving work ranges from sermons to a noted English version of Theophrastus and lively arguments about how Greek should be pronounced.
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About the author
Born in Beckenham, Kent, in August 1696, he was the son of the Rev. Peter Gally, a French Protestant refugee. He studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, took holy orders, and built a career in the Church of England that included posts at St Paul's, Covent Garden, the rectory of Wavendon in Buckinghamshire, and a prebend at Gloucester.
Alongside his church work, he wrote and translated books that show a strong interest in classical learning and style. He published sermons, translated The Moral Characters of Theophrastus from the Greek, wrote A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings, and produced dissertations on Greek pronunciation and accent.
He died on August 7, 1769. No suitable verified portrait image could be confirmed from the sources checked, so no author photo is included here.