Charles Hole (1824-1906), clergyman and author was the second son of Captain Henry Hole of Barnstaple, Devon. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge obtaining a BA in 1846 and was ordained deacon in 1846 and priest in 1847. He was curate of St Mary's Reading, 1846-1852; Chaplain of the Reading Union, 1852-1858; curate of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, 1858-1868; rector of Loxbeare, Devon, 1868-1876; lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at King's College, London, 1879-1906. He died aged 82. He was the author of a number of books: A Brief Biographical Dictionary, 1865, 2nd ed. 1866; The Life of Archdeacon Phelps . 2 vols, 1871, 1873; The Maintenance of the Church of England as an Established Church, 1874; A Manual of the Book of Common Prayer, 1887; Early Missions to and within the British Islands, 1888; By Paths of English Church History, 1889; The Early History of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East : to the end of A.D. 1814, 1896.
Reference: Alumni Cantabrigienses (Part II from 1752 to 1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1947)). ; Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1904
From the guide to the Hole Manuscripts, 1860-1906, (University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department)
