THE DEAN OF ROCHESTER, 



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tions " of the usual sort with something 

 of the feeling with which one might find 

 alpine flowers on cinder heaps. The 

 Very Rev. Samuel ReynoldsHole,D.D., 

 was the son of the late Mr. Samuel Hole 

 of Caunton Manor, Notts., where he 

 was born in December 1 8 1 9 . Educated 

 at Newark Grammar School, he went 

 thence to Brazenose College, Oxford, 

 where he graduated in 1 844. Heat once 

 submitted himself for deacon's orders to 

 the Bishop of Lincoln — then the dio- 

 cesan of Nottinghamshire — and under- 

 took the curacy of his ancestral parish 

 of Caunton, where he worked for forty- 

 three years. He became vicar 

 of the parish in 1850 and was 

 a parish priest of the best sort, 

 knowing the needs of his 

 people, especially the working 

 men. As squire of Caunton, 

 to which he succeeded upon 

 his father's death in 1868, he 

 had some scope for field 

 sports, but this never involved 

 any neglect of his higher 

 work. The story of his life as 

 a churchman hasbeensofullv 

 set forth in the daily papers 

 that we need only speak of his 

 relations to the garden and to 

 rural life. His first book was 

 " A Little Tour in Ireland," 

 illustrated by John Leech, and 

 through Leech he became the 

 friend of both Thackeray and 

 Charles Dickens. In 1869 he 

 brought out his " Book about 

 Roses," which has passed 

 through many editions, and of 

 his other works may be men- 



tioned " Hints to Preachers," " Nice 

 and her Neighbours," " A Book about 

 the Garden," and two volumes of " Me- 

 mories," one in 1892 and the other in 

 1894. Brought up as he was in a Not- 

 tinghamshire manor, he was much at- 

 tached to rural life. He was taught to 

 ride when little more than four years 

 old, and he always maintained that his 

 influence with his parishioners was in 

 nowise diminished because he hunted 

 once a week with the RufTord. He 

 will long be remembered among hu- 

 mour-loving divines, for his stock of 

 jokes was an ample one and he was very 



