Thomas Gale (1635/1636?7 or 8 April 1702) was an English classical scholar, antiquarian and cleric.

Life

Gale was born at Scruton, Yorkshire. He was educated at

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and

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, 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 1676

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of St Paul's, in 1677 a fellow of the

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, and in 1697 Dean of York. He died in

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. He married Barbara Pepys, daughter of Roger Pepys MP, of Impington and his second wife Barbara Bacon, and thus a cousin of Samuel Pepys, who under her nickname "Bab" refers to her several times in his famous

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. She died in 1689. He was the father of two noted antiquarians, Roger Gale and Samuel Gale, and father-in-law of the Rev. Dr. William Stukeley. To his collection of manuscripts belonged Minuscule 66.

Works

He published a mythographical 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

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, later removed, in which the

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s were accused of having originated the Great Fire of London.

Books

* (ed.): ''Opuscula mythologica physica et ethica''. Graece et latine. Seriem eorum sistit pagina praefationem proxime sequens (Amsterdam: H. Wetstein 1671, auch 1688) * (ed.): ''Historiae poeticae Scriptores antiqui'' (Paris: Muguet-Scott 1675) * (ed.): Iamblichi ''Liber de mysteriis Aegyptiorum'' (1678) * (ed.): ''Ψαλτηριον. Psalterium''. Juxta exemplar Alexandrinum editio nova, Græce & Latine (Oxford: Sheldon 1678) * (ed.): ''Rerum Anglicarum Scriptorum Veterum'' Tom. ... (Oxford: Sheldon 1684) * (ed.): ''Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Quinque'' (Oxford: Sheldon, 1687) (Rerum Anglicarum scriptores veteres, 2) * (ed.): ''Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae Scriptores XV'' (Oxford: Sheldon, 1691) (Rerum Anglicarum scriptores veteres, 3) * (ed.): '' Antonini Iter Britanniarum''Gale, Thomæ [Thomas Gale]
''Antonini Iter Britanniarum'' [''Antoninus's Route of the Britains'']
Published posthumously & edited by R. Gale. M. Atkins (London), 1709.

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