Hole Manuscripts 1860-1906

Hole Charles 1824-1906

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Church Missionary Society.

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The Church Missionary Society was founded in 1799 by a small group of laymen and clergy of the Church of England. It was originally named the Society for Missions to Africa and the East. Its purpose was to enable the Church to send missionaries to Africa and other heathen areas. Henry M. Stanley, following his discovery of the missionary explorer, David Livingstone, was instrumental in opening the Uganda Mission. His famous letter, published in the Daily Telegraph in 1875, prompted a contributio...

Hole, Charles

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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 ag...