Background
The son of Benjamin Hoadly, bishop of Winchester, he was born on 10 February 1706 in Broad Street, London.
The son of Benjamin Hoadly, bishop of Winchester, he was born on 10 February 1706 in Broad Street, London.
He read mathematics, and attended the lectures of Nicholas Saunderson. He graduated Bachelor of Medicine 1727, and Doctor of Medicine
He was sent to Newcome"s academy at Hackney, and then to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was admitted on 8 April 1722. April 1728, having already been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was registrar of Hereford while his father was bishop there (1721-1724).
Hoadly settled in London, and was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 29 December 1736.
In the following spring he delivered the Gulstonian lectures on the organs of respiration, which were printed. In 1739 he was elected censor, and in 1742 delivered a commonplace Harveian oration, which was printed.
On 9 June 1742 he was made physician to the king"s household, and on 4 January 1746 physician to the household of Frederick, Prince of Wales. He died at Chelsea on 10 August 1757.
Hoadly married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Betts, and by her had one son, Benjamin.
Secondly, Anne, daughter of General Armstrong.
Royal Society.