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
Guildford
Guildford ()
is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ...
, New England, whither his parents had fled at the outbreak of the great rebellion. In 1655 his parents returned to Great Britain and settled in
Edinburgh, where Samuel was educated, matriculating in 1659 in the university. In 1662 his parents removed to
Rolvenden
Rolvenden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is centred on the A28 Ashford to Hastings road, south-west of Tenterden.
The settlement of Rolvenden Layne, south of Rolvenden, is also part of t ...
in Kent. Next year Samuel became an assistant-master in the Cranbrook free school. He was in holy orders, but never held any benefice. Hoadly established a private school at
Westerham in 1671, whence in 1678 he removed to
Tottenham High Cross. In 1686 he removed to Brook House, Hackney. He was appointed in 1700 head-master of
Norwich School, an appointment which he held till his death on 17 April 1705. He was twice married; first in 1666 to Mary Wood, who died in childbirth in 1668; secondly, in 1669, to Martha, daughter of a priest called Pickering. By his second wife he had a large family of nine children, among whom were
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.
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, Bishop of Winchester, and
John Hoadly, Archbishop of Armagh.
Hoadly's ''Natural Method of Teaching, being the Accidence in Questions and Answers &c.'', a kind of English and Latin grammar combined (1683), was the most popular school manual of the age, and before 1773 reached its eleventh edition. In 1700 he published a school edition of ''
Phædrus'' and the ''Maxims of
Publius Syrus''. He had some correspondence with
Grævius, in which occur notices of Bentley's projected edition of 'Hesychius' and of the controversy upon the Phalaris question. It was probably owing to the recommendation of Grævius that several young foreign scholars became boarders in Hoadly's house in order to learn English.
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1643 births
1705 deaths
17th-century English educators
18th-century English educators
Education writers
17th-century English writers
17th-century English male writers
18th-century English writers
18th-century English male writers
Headmasters of Norwich School