Thomas Hoy (botanist)

Thomas Hoy (* 1750, † May 1, 1822 ) was an English gardener. According to him, the plant genus Hoya ( wax flowers ) is named.

Life

Thomas Hoy was over 40 years head gardener (head gardener ) of three Dukes (Duke ) of Northumberland at Syon House in Middlesex England. He is described as " an experienced botanist and skilled cultivator ". Still in its founding year, 1788, he was elected a member of the Linnean Society in London. Some of the plants he sent this society flourishing from the greenhouses of Syon House, were to type specimens, because botanists then described these species. These include Acacia suaveolens, Acacia myrtifolia and Goodenia ovata.

Hoy died at the age of 72 years in Isleworth. Robert Brown named the genus Hoya in his honor, " because his services have long been known as an intelligent and successful Pflanzenkultivateur botanists of this country".