Website/Catalog  (11 May 2023)  Includes photo(s).
 
Reverend T. C. Cole.   Heritage climbing tea noisette. Large, full, yellow flowers. Fragrant. Climbing shrub. Repeat bloom throughout the season. Rare. Australian. pre-1880.

Magazine  (2018)  Page(s) Vol 40,No. 3.  
 
Wal Johnston: Rev. T. C. Cole.
p32. The Rose.....the growth pattern is quite different, with the Rev scrambling for the sky and the Cloth [of Gold] being much more bushy.  The foliage of both is similar.....
p34. The Man......
 

Magazine  (2008)  Page(s) 67.  
 
from Gillbank, Linden. 2008, ‘University Botany in Colonial Victoria: Frederick McCoy’s Botanical Classes and Collections at the University of Melbourne’, Historical Records of Australian Science, 2008, 19, 53–82

http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR08002.pdf

The sole candidate [for *Frederick McCoy’s first botany examination] was the University’s ‘first’ student, Thomas Cornelius Cole (first signature on the matriculation roll; enrolment number 18550001), who happened to come from a horticultural family. Cole passed McCoy’s geology and zoology examinations in 1856, and chemistry in 1857, and, not having sat for an undergraduate examination in botany, was examined in botany in the School’s honour examination in March 1858.[endnote109] The subsequent commemoration of the University’s first botany student with the yellow ‘Rev. T. C. Cole’ rose [endnote110] seems beautifully appropriate.

109. Student Record for Thomas Cornelius Cole, Accession No. 88/51, Student Administration, University of Melbourne, UMA. Examination Book, op. cit. (n. 107), pp. 4, 7, 12. McCoy set no honours examinations in the science subjects that the sole candidate had already passed; Melbourne University Calendar 1858–9, pp. 129–130, 147.
T. C. Cole’s father, brothers and uncle were nurserymen: R. Aitken, ‘Cole, Thomas Cornelius’ in Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (Melbourne, 2002), pp. 147–148;
M. Drew, ‘Thomas Cornelius Cole: fragments of a life’, in Melbourne University Mosaic: People and Places (Melbourne, 1998), pp. 9–22.

110. E. Scott, A History of the University of Melbourne (Melbourne, 1936), p. 41. It originated from a seedling raised by Cole.

* From his appointment in 1854 until his death in 1899, Frederick McCoy was the Professor of Natural Science [at the University of Melbourne] and, for most of that time, also honorary Director of the Colony of Victoria’s National Museum. p53

© Australian Academy of Science 2008 and reprinted here with permission

Book  (2008)  Page(s) 222.  
 
1880. Rev. T. C. Cole. Breeder: T. C. Cole, Vic. Chromatella x Maréchal Niel Climber, Bright yellow climbing rose, large, full and free, very vigorous.

Magazine  (2003)  
 
Heritage Roses in Australia – Hay Conference Proceedings.
p37. John Nieuwesteeg. The earliest raised Australian rose was probably Reverend T. C. Cole in 1880; a seedling of ‘Chromatella’ and Marechal Niel’ now thought to be extinct.

Book  (2002)  Page(s) 135.  
 
Notes that the rose 'Rev. T.C. Cole' commemorates Rev.Cole of Vic [Victoria, Australia] and goes on to say:
"... released in 1880; it was a seedling of 'Chromatella' X 'Marechal Niel' and as the latter cultivar was a grandchild of the former, 'Rev.T.C.Cole' would be inbred and difficult to identify. Like many Australian cultivars, especially older ones, it is now considered extinct."

Book  (2002)  
 
p147 [Some Cole family history]

p148-3 Another son [of Thomas Cornelius Cole 1810-1889], the Rev. Thomas Cornelius Cole jnr. (c. 1836-1879), was also active in Melbourne horticultural circles.

Newsletter  (1994)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Rev. T.C. Cole. T.Clg. 1880. Rev. T. C. Cole, Vic. Parentage: Chromatella x Marchel Neil

Book  (1941)  Page(s) 96.  
 
p96-2 T. A. Stewart. Roses of Australia and New Zealand. Recently Mr. H. H. Hazlewood has come into possession of a manuscript book compiled by the late Mr. A. K. Moore who was very active in the Rose world about 25 years ago [1916] and from which the following additions to the list [of Australian roses] have been compiled.
1880 - Rev. T. C. Cole, N. (Cole), Chromatella x M. Niel

Book  (1935)  Page(s) 122. Chapter XI.  
 
 .....and he [the Reverend] was an overworked man. His father was a nurseryman at Hawthorn. Through the father the son acquired a taste for horticulture. His rose garden was the envy of rosarians. ... From the vicar's rosary many beautiful blooms were awarded prizes at horticultural shows.