John Hoadly (playwright)

After attending Newcome's school at Hackney, where he played the part of Phocyas in John Hughes's Siege of Damascus,’ he was sent in 1730 to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

On 29 November 1735 he was appointed chancellor of the diocese of Winchester, and was ordained deacon by his father on the following 7 December, and priest the 21st of the same month.

Hoadly, Garrick and William Hogarth once enacted together Ragandjaw, a parody on the ghost scene in Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar.

in writing The Contrast; or, a tragical comical Rehearsal of two modern Plays, and the Tragedy of Epaminondas, which was brought out at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields on 30 April 1731, and performed three times without success.

[4] Other works by Hoadly were:[2] He wrote the fifth act of James Miller's tragedy Mahomet the Imposter (1744), and completed and revised George Lillo's adaptation of Arden of Feversham (1762).

He also edited his father's works (three volumes, 1773), to which he prefixed a short Life originally in the Biographia Britannica.