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Authorised form of nameHoadly; Benjamin (1706 - 1757)
Dates1706 - 1757
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBroad Street, London, England
Date of birth10 February 1706
Place of deathChelsea, London
Date of death10 August 1757
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
Dr Newcombe's School at Hackney, London; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; MB (1727), MD (Com. Reg. 1728)
Career:
Registrar of the Diocese of Hereford while his father was Bishop (1721-1724); settled in London; appointed Registrar of the Diocese of Hereford by his father (c1721); Physician to the Royal Household (1742-1745); Physician to the Prince of Wales (1746); Author of comedies
Memberships:
FRCP (1736)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/03/1727
RelationshipsSon of Benjamin Hoadly, successively Bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury and Winchester and his first wife, Sarah Curtis.
Married: 1) Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Betts; 2) Anne, daughter of General John Armstrong (FRS)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn
References:
R W Home, 'Some Manuscripts on Electrical and Other Subjects Attributed to Thomas Bayes, FRS' in NR 1974-5 vol 29 pp 81-90
'Gentleman's Magazine' 1757, p386
CodeNA2190
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RBO/15/38Account of a lunar eclipse of the moon on 29 July 1729 extracted from a letter from Mr William Stevenson to Benjamin Hoadly1730
EL/S2/68Letter, from William Stevenson to Benjamin Hoadly, dated at Ledbury25 November
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