About Thomas Hoy
Lived 1750 – 1822 (aged 71–72). Thomas Hoy was a British horticulturist and gardener.
Thomas Hoy (c.1750 – 1 May 1822) was an English gardener and botanist employed by the Duke of Northumberland at Syon House in Middlesex in the United Kingdom, a position he held for 40 years.
He died in Isleworth in 1822 aged 72. Botanist Robert Brown named the plant genus Hoya in his honour describing Hoy as someone "whose merits as an intelligent and successful cultivator have been long known to the botanists of this country".
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Who was Thomas Hoy?
British gardener
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Thomas Hoy was born in 1750.
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Thomas Hoy died on 1 May 1822.
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Thomas Hoy was a horticulturist and gardener.
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Thomas Hoy was British.
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· DBpedia: Thomas Hoy (botanist)
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