Thomas Hoy

Thomas Hoy (* around 1750 ; † May 1, 1822 ) was an English gardener. The plant genus Hoya ( wax flowers ) is named after him.

Life

Thomas Hoy was 40 years head gardener ( head gardener ) three Dukes (Dukes) of Northumberland in Syon House in the English Middlesex . He is described as an "experienced botanist and capable cultivator". In 1788, the year it was founded, he was elected a member of the Linnean Society in London . Some plants, which he passed on to this society in bloom from the greenhouses of Syon House, became type specimens because botanists later described these species. These include Acacia suaveolens , Acacia myrtifolia and Goodenia ovata .

Hoy died in Isleworth at the age of 72 . Robert Brown named the genus Hoya in his honor, "because his services as an intelligent and successful plant cultivator were only known to the botanists of this country for a long time".

Individual evidence

^ Ray Desmond: Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists
^ Belle assemblée: or, Court and fashionable magazine
^ Ray Desmond: Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists
^ Robert Brown (1810): On the Asclepiadeae, a Natural Order of Plants Separated from the Apocineae of Jussieu. - Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 1: 12-78.

personal data
SURNAME	Hoy, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English gardener
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1750
DATE OF DEATH	May 1, 1822

[1] Ray Desmond: Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists

[2] Belle assemblée: or, Court and fashionable magazine

[3] Ray Desmond: Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists

[4] Robert Brown (1810): On the Asclepiadeae, a Natural Order of Plants Separated from the Apocineae of Jussieu. - Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 1: 12-78.