Darwin Correspondence Project

Soldier, clergyman, and naturalist. Son of Stanley and Alice Hoole. Attended Uppingham School, 1878–80. Trained at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 1885. Stationed in Malta, 1885–6. Resigned his commission in 1888. Ordained a Roman Catholic priest; deacon at the Brompton Oratory, Kensington, 1891. Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1905.