He was born at
Tottenham,
Middlesex, 27 September 1678, son of
Samuel Hoadly and Martha Pickering, and was a younger brother of
Benjamin Hoadly. 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, of which his father was headmaster. After passing some years there he became chaplain to Bishop
Gilbert Burnet, who gave him the rectory of St. Edmund's,
Salisbury, 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 party's troubles with Burnet. He was also attacked for his friendship with
Thomas Chubb, whose views were considered to be dangerously unorthodox. In 1717
Lord King, as
chief justice of the common pleas, presented Hoadly to the rectory of
Ockham, Surrey; and in 1727 he was consecrated
bishop of Leighlin and Ferns. The theologian
William Whiston protested because he thought Hoadly ignorant. In July 1729 a vacancy occurred in the archbishopric of Dublin,
Hugh Boulter wrote to
Sir Robert Walpole 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. Hoadly died at
Rathfarnham, 19 July 1746, of a fever. ==Works==