Background
Hole was born in Newark and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford.
Hole was born in Newark and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford.
Brasenose College.
He was ordained in 1844 and spent 43 years at his father’s parish of Saint Andrew"s Church, Caunton, firstly as curate and from 1850 as its vicar. A prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral and an honorary chaplain to Edward Benson, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, he became Dean of Rochester in 1887. There is a memorial to Hole at Rochester Cathedral.
Dean Hole is further remembered on the number 3 bell at Rochester: "In remembrance of South. Reynolds Hole, Dean.
Died 27th August - 1904".