Background
Born on 12 December 1659, he was son of Clement Hoy of London.
Born on 12 December 1659, he was son of Clement Hoy of London.
He graduated Bachelor of Arts 1680, Master of Arts
He was admitted to Merchant Taylors" School in 1672, and was elected a probationary fellow of Street John"s College, Oxford, in 1675. 1684, Bachelor of Medicine 1686, and Doctor of Medicine 1689.
He was appointed Regius Professor of Physic at Oxford in 1698. Thomas Hearne, whose opinion of low church whig is not likely to be impartial, says that he owed his appointment to the influence of Doctor Gibbons with Lord Somers, and that he scandalously neglected the duties of his office.
According to Anthony Wood he practised as a physician "in and near the antient Borough of Warwick," but in 1698 John Evelyn, writing from Wotton, speaks of Doctor Hoy as "a very learned, curious, and ingenious person, and our neighbour in Surrey." He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in December 1697.
He died, it is said, in Jamaica in or about 1718.
Royal Society.