Hole, Charles

Church of England; b. at Newport, near Barn staple, Devons hire, Eng., March 23, 1823; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. (wrangler in the mathematical tripos), 1846; was ordained deacon 1846, priest 1847; became curate of St. Mary's Chapel, Reading, 1846; of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, 1858; rector of Lox be are, Devons hire, 1868; resigned, 1876; lecturer in ecclesiastical history since 1879, and in English history since 1884, at King's College, London; since 1883 chaplain to Lord Sackville. He is the author of A Brief Biographical Dictionary, London, 1865, 2d ed. 1866; Life of Archdeacon Phelps, 1871, 2 vols.; Maintenance of the Church of England as an Established Church (first Peek prize e ay), 1874; editor of The Christian Observer, 1877; contributor to Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography, 1877-86, 4 vols., and Smith and Cheetham's Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, 1877-80, 2 vols.