10 Facts About Benjamin Hoadly

Benjamin Hoadly was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, of Hereford, of Salisbury, and finally of Winchester.

Benjamin Hoadly is best known as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy.

Benjamin Hoadly was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and ordained a priest in 1700.

Benjamin Hoadly was rector of St Peter-le-Poer, London, from 1704 to 1724, and of St Leonard's, Streatham, from 1710 to 1723.

Benjamin Hoadly became a leader of the low church and found favour with the Whig party.

Benjamin Hoadly was then translated three more times, taking up different bishoprics.

Benjamin Hoadly maintained that the eucharist was purely a commemorative act without any divine intervention.

Benjamin Hoadly criticised the Pretender, who issued a declaration that he would extinguish opposition.

Benjamin Hoadly wrote that he would impose uniformity on all if he ruled: "Not only that he must destroy your Civil and Religious Rights, but that he plainly before-hand has here told You, to your Face, He will do so".

Hoadly's son Benjamin aided Hogarth with his The Analysis of Beauty.