- Thomas Gale
Thomas Gale (1635/1636? – 1702), English classical scholar and antiquarian, was born at
Scruton, Yorkshire . He was educated atWestminster School andTrinity College, Cambridge , of which he became a fellow.In 1666 he was appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, in 1672 high master of
St Paul's School , in 1676prebendary of St Paul's, in 1677 a fellow of theRoyal Society , and in 1697 dean of York. He died atYork on the 7th (or 8th) of April 1702.He published a collection, "Opuscula mythologica, ethica, et physica", and editions of several Greek and Latin authors, but his fame rests chiefly on his collection of old works bearing on early English history, entitled "Historiae Anglicanae scriptores" and "Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae scriptores XV". He was the author of the inscription on the London Monument, later removed, in which the
Roman Catholic s were accused of having originated the great fire.He was the father of two noted antiquarians, Roger Gale and
Samuel Gale , and father-in-law of the Rev. Dr.William Stukeley .References
*1911|article=Thomas Gale|url=http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Thomas_Gale
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