Thomas Gale 1635?-1702
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Thomas GALE 1635?-1702
Biographical Note
Dean of York, and antiquary.
Books
A list of books belonging to him, ca.1700, is in BL Sloane ms 203, fos.266-8. Gave oriental manuscripts to Trinity College, Cambridge. The bulk of his large library passed to his eldest son Roger (d.date of Death:1744), who gave their joint manuscripts collections to Trinity. Listed in Edward Bernard's Catalogi manuscriptorum, 1697, as owning 491 manuscripts.
Sources
- Doggett, Nicholas. "Gale, Thomas (1635/6–1702), dean of York and antiquary." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- McKitterick, D. The making of the Wren Library, Cambridge, 1995, 61-4.