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John Hoadly (27 September 1678 - 19 July 1746) was an
Anglican
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divine
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in the
Church of Ireland
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. He served as
Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin
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(1727 to 1730), as
Archbishop of Dublin
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(1730 to 1742), and as
Archbishop of Armagh
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from 1742 until his death.
Life
He was born at
Tottenham
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,
Middlesex
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, 27 September 1678, son of
Samuel Hoadly
Samuel Hoadly (1643–1705), was a schoolmaster and writer of educational books. His ''Natural Method of Teaching'' was the most popular school manual of its time, remaining in print for almost a century.
Life
Hoadly was born 30 September 1643 at ...
and Martha Pickering, and was a younger brother of
Benjamin Hoadly
Benjamin Hoadly (14 November 1676 – 17 April 1761) was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, of Hereford, of Salisbury, and finally of Winchester. He is best known as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy.
Li ...
. He was a member of
St Catharine's Hall, Cambridge (B.A. 1697), and in September 1700 was appointed under-master of
Norwich grammar school
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, of which his father was headmaster. After passing some years there he became chaplain to Bishop
Gilbert Burnet
Gilbert Burnet (18 September 1643 – 17 March 1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, ...
, who gave him the rectory of St. Edmund's,
Salisbury
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Salisbury is in the southeast of Wil ...
, and made him successively prebendary (21 February 1705–6), archdeacon (6 November 1710), and chancellor (16 April 1713) of Salisbury. The author of a pamphlet ''The Salisbury Quarrel Ended'' of 1710, relating to local conflicts, attributed to Hoadly's influence on the
High Church
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party's troubles with Burnet. He was also attacked for his friendship with
Thomas Chubb
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, whose views were considered to be dangerously unorthodox.
In 1717
Lord King, as
chief justice of the common pleas
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, presented Hoadly to the rectory of
Ockham, Surrey
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; and in 1727 he was consecrated
bishop of Leighlin and Ferns
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. The theologian
William Whiston
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protested because he thought Hoadly ignorant. In July 1729 a vacancy occurred in the archbishopric of Dublin,
Hugh Boulter
Hugh Boulter (4 January 1672 – 27 September 1742) was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland, from 1724 until his death. He also served as the chaplain to George I from 1719.
Background and education
Boulter wa ...
wrote to
Sir Robert Walpole
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in support; and Hoadly was translated to Dublin in January 1730. As archbishop of Dublin, he built
the residence of Tallaght at a cost of £2,500.
In October 1742 Hoadly became Archbishop of Armagh on Boulter's death, the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
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, the
Duke of Devonshire
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, who was at court when the news arrived, telling the king that he could not do without him. As primate, he consented to the abolition of restrictions on
Roman Catholic
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services. He was for many years a major force in Irish politics.
As Archbishop of Armagh, Hoadly served as
one of the Lord Justices three times between 1742 and 1746.
[J.G. Simms, “Chief Governors: (B) 1534-1800”, in T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne (eds), ''A New History of Ireland, Vol. IX: Maps, Genealogies, Lists (A Companion to Irish History, Part II)'', page 493.]
Hoadly died at
Rathfarnham
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, 19 July 1746, of a fever.
Works
Hoadly's writings consisted of occasional sermons, a pastoral letter on the rebellion of 1745, a defence of Burnet's work on the articles against
William Binckes
William Binckes (bapt. 25 May 1653''London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812'' – 19 June 1712) was an English preacher and sermon writer, noted for his term as Dean of Lichfield.
Biography
Binckes was born ...
, 1703, and a commentary on Bishop
William Beveridge
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's writings.
In the British Library Catalogue (accessed online 19 November 2012) are:
*1. A Defence of the ... Bishop of Sarum in answer to a Book
y W. Binckes,entituled A Prefatory Discourse to an Examination of the Bishop of Sarum's Exposition of the XXXIX. Articles, etc. London : A. Baldwin, 1703.
*2. The abasement of pride: a sermon preach'd in the cathedral of Salisbury, at the assizes held for the county of Wilts, July the 18th. 1708. upon occasion of the late victory. London : printed for Tim. Childe, 1708. Great Britain England London.
*3. An Answer to a Letter from a Citizen of New Sarum being a true account of the affront offer'd the Bishop
. Burnetthere: and a fresh proof of the mallice and injustice of his enemies.
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Family
Hoadly's only daughter, Sarah, married on 29 November 1740
Bellingham Boyle
Bellingham Boyle (1709-1771) was an Irish politician.
Boyle was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. From 1731 until 1761, he was MP for Bandonbridge;
and from 1761 to 1768 for Youghal
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(b. 1709), M.P. for
Bandon Bridge, a distant cousin of the Irish Speaker
Henry Boyle.
References
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1678 births
1746 deaths
Bishops of Ferns and Leighlin
Anglican archbishops of Dublin
Anglican archbishops of Armagh
18th-century Anglican archbishops
Archdeacons of Salisbury
17th-century Irish people
18th-century Irish people
Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
Members of the Irish House of Lords
British expatriate archbishops