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 was edited by Samuel Drew [q. v.], and published in 1824. His poems are praised for their ‘judgment, vigour, and elegance’ in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ (1814, ii. 86).

[Boase and Courtney's Bibl. Cornub. i. 242–3, iii. 1231; Nichols's Lit. Illustr. vi. 44–6; Gilbert's Parochial Hist. of Cornwall, ii. 221–5; Polwhele's Biog. Sketches, i. 89; Parl. Debates, 6 March 1818, vol. xxxvii. col. 879.]  HOADLY, BENJAMIN, M.D. (1706–1757), physician, son of Benjamin Hoadly, bishop of Winchester [q. v.], was born on 10 Feb. 1706 in Broad Street, London. He was sent to Dr. Newcome's academy at Hackney, and thence to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was admitted on 8 April 1722. He read mathematics, and attended the lectures of the blind professor, Saunderson. He graduated M.B. 1727, and M.D. April 1728, having already been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was registrar of Hereford while his father was bishop (1721–4). He settled in London, and was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians 29 Dec. 1736, and in the following spring he delivered the Gulstonian lectures on the organs of respiration, which were printed, but are uninteresting. A copy bound in red morocco, presented by the author, is preserved in the college library. 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 Jan. 1746 physician to the household of the Prince of Wales.

Hoadly was fond of the stage, and was author of ‘The Suspicious Husband,’ a comedy, which was first acted at Covent Garden on 12 Feb. 1747. Garrick wrote a prologue for it, and acted the part of Ranger. It hit the popular taste, was often repeated on the stage, and was published in 1747 with a dedication to George II, who sent Hoadly 100l. Foote praised it in his ‘Roman and English Comedy Compared,’ 1747; Genest calls it ‘one of our very best comedies.’ A farce by Charles Macklin, ‘The Suspicious Husband Criticized,’ was produced at Drury Lane on 24 March 1747. The comedy was perhaps more justly called by a contemporary ‘Hoadly's profligate pantomime,’ consisting as it does of entrances and exits through windows at night, and of dissolute small talk. Hoadly also wrote a comedy, ‘The Tatlers,’ which was acted at Covent Garden on 29 April 1797 for Holman's benefit, but was never printed. In 1756 he published ‘Observations on a series of Electrical Experiments by Dr. Hoadly and Mr. Wilson.’ He died at Chelsea on 10 Aug. 1757. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Betts, and by her had one son, Benjamin; secondly, Anne, daughter of General Armstrong.

[Munk's Coll. of Phys. ii. 132; Works; Davies's Life of Garrick; Baker's Biog. Dram.; Genest's Hist. Stage, iv. 205, 215, vii. 310.]  HOADLY, BENJAMIN (1676–1761), bishop in succession of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester, was born at Westerham in Kent 14 Nov. 1676, being the second son of the Rev. Samuel Hoadly [q. v.] by Martha Pickering, his second wife. John Hoadly, archbishop of Armagh [q. v.], was his brother. Benjamin Hoadly was educated by his father until his admission to Catharine Hall, Cambridge, where he entered as pensioner 18 Feb. 1691. He graduated B.A. in January 1696, having lost seven terms through ill-health. He was thenceforth crippled, and was obliged to preach in a kneeling posture. On 23 Aug. 1697 Hoadly was elected fellow of Catharine Hall; proceeded M.A. in 1699, and was college tutor (1699–1701). He vacated his fellowship by his marriage with Mrs. Sarah Curtis on 30 May 1701, and took holy orders. From 1701 to 1711 Hoadly was lecturer of St. Mildred's, Poultry. In 1704 he obtained the rectory of St. Peter-le-Poor in Broad Street.

Hoadly's first publication was a letter to William Fleetwood (afterwards bishop of Ely) [q. v.], occasioned by his ‘Essay on Miracles’ (1702). Hoadly maintains, in opposition to Fleetwood, that some miracles were and others were not within the power of angels, both good and bad. In 1703 he took part in the controversy as to conformity to the church of England. Strongly as he advocated conformity, he was opposed to the bill against occasional conformity, and when it was thrown out a third time in the House of Lords he defended the bishops who had voted for its rejection (Letter to a Clergyman concerning the votes of the Bishops, &c. 1703). About the same time he published the first of his treatises on the ‘Reasonableness of Conformity to the Church of England.’ This was directed against the tenth chapter of Calamy's ‘Life of Baxter,’ which was admitted to contain the strongest case against the Act of Uniformity. Hoadly met the objections to the prayer-book, and then argued that even if tenable they would not justify nonconformity, because of its fatal effect on unity and concord. In 1704 he published ‘A Persuasive to Lay Conformity,’ urging upon lay nonconformists the obligation to be constant conformists. By occasional conformity they admitted that conformity was not sinful, and therefore in the interests of peace it might be constant. Calamy having answered the ‘Reasonableness’ with some