Samuel Hole
Samuel Reynolds Hole (5 December 1819[1] – 27 August 1904[2]) was an English Anglican priest,[3] author[4] and horticulturalist[5] in the late 19th century and the early part of the 20th.[6][7]
Life
Hole was born at Ardwick near Manchester the only son of Samuel Hole of Caunton Manor and his wife, Mary Cooke of Macclesfield.[8]
He was raised in Newark and educated at Mrs Gilbey's Preparatory School and Newark Grammar School there. After a period of foreign travel he studied theology at Brasenose College, Oxford.[9] He was ordained in 1844[10] and spent 43 years at his father's parish of St. Andrew's Church, Caunton,[11][12] firstly as curate and from 1850 as its vicar.[13] A prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral and an honorary chaplain to Edward Benson, the then Archbishop of Canterbury,[14] he became Dean of Rochester in 1887.[15] Noted for his expertise with roses[16][17] and an inaugural recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour.
There are two memorials to Hole at Rochester Cathedral.[18][19] The most impressive is a recumbent marble life-size figure by F. W. Pomeroy.
Hole is further remembered on the number 3 bell at Rochester: "In remembrance of S. Reynolds Hole, Dean. Died 27th August - 1904".[20]
Family
In 1861 he married Caroline Francklin, daughter of John Francklin of Gonalston and Great Barford.
They had one son, Samuel Hugh Francklin Hole (b.1862) who became a barrister.[citation needed]
Publications
- Hints to Freshmen (1847)
- A Little Tour in Ireland (1859) illus. by John Leech
- A Book about Roses (1869)
- Hints to Preachers (1880)
- Nice and her Neighbours (1881)
- Addresses Spoken to Working Men (1894)
- A Book about the Garden and the Gardener (1899)
- Our Gardens (1899)
- Then and Now (1901)
References
- ^ "Who was Who" 1897-2000 London, A & C Black, 2000 ISBN 0-7136-6125-9
- ^ "Death of Dean Hole", The Times, 29 August 1904; p. 8; Issue 37485; col A
- ^ "The Deans", Beeson,T.R: London, SCM, 2004 ISBN 0-334-02987-2
- ^ Amongst others he wrote Hints to Freshmen (1847); A Little Tour in Ireland (1858); A Book about Roses (1869); A Book about the Garden and the Gardener (1899); and Then and Now (1901): British Library website accessed 8 June 2008
- ^ The Rose King, Elias, G.A: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire County Council Leisure Services, 1994, ISBN 0-900943-56-4
- ^ "New Dean of Rochester", The Times, 13 December 1887; p. 9; Issue 32254; col E
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
- ^ ODNB: Samuel Hole
- ^ "University Intelligence", The Times, 27 May 1844; p7; Issue 18620; col F
- ^ The Times, 25 September 1844; p. 7; Issue 18725; col A, "Ordinations, Lincoln"
- ^ Genuki
- ^ Southwell Churches
- ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence, The Morning Post (London, England), 17 June 1850; p. 2; Issue 23874. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
- ^ Religious Intelligence, The Royal Cornwall Gazette Falmouth Packet, Cornish Weekly News & General Advertiser
- ^ Church Intelligence, The Bury and Norwich Post and Suffolk Standard (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), 20 December 1887; p. 3; Issue 5491, 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
- ^ A Book About Roes, The Morning Post, (London, England), 19 October 1869; p. 3; Issue 29910, 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
- ^ RIRS
- ^ Monument details
- ^ Rochester Cathedral website
- ^ Love, Dickon, "Rochester, Cathedral Church of Christ and The Blessed Virgin Mary", Church Bells of Kent, retrieved 16 March 2018
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