GALE, THOMAS (?1636-17o2)

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GALE, THOMAS (?1636-17o2) ,

English

ENGLISH

classical scholar and antiquarian, was born at Scruton, Yorkshire. He was educated at Westminster school and Trinity 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 1676 prebendary of St Paul's, in 1677 a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1697 dean of

York

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. He died at

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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

ENGLISH

history, entitled Historiae Anglicanae scriptores and Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, A nglo-Danicae scriptores X V. He was the author of the inscription on the London

Monument

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in which the Roman Catholics were accused of having originated the

great

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fire.
See J. E. B. Mayor, Cambridge in the Time of Queen Anne, 448-450.

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