Rev. Thomas Gale D.D.

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Burke's LG; "A divine, critic, and antiquary of distinguished erudition, b at Scruton n 1636. He m Barbara, dau of Thomas Pepys, Esq. of Impington, Cambs, and by her (who died in 1689, had, with a dau. Elizabeth, m to the Rev William Stukely, the celebrated antiquary,) four sons viz;
1.Roger, his heir
2.Charles, rector of Scruton
3.Samuel, b in 1682, one of the land surveyors of the Customs, a reviever of the Society of Antiquaries, in 1717, and its first treasurer and
4.Thomas, who dsp.
Dr Gale, who Drake, no liberal panegyrist, styles "the Good Dean", d 28 April 1702 and was s by his eldest son Roger Gale".

From http://www.knoxetal.com/gale/thomas.htm;
Reverend Thomas Gale D. D. (only surviving child) a divine critic…antiquary of distinguished erudition. He was born at Scruton, York in 1636, and received his education at Westminster School, and at Trinity College Cambridge, of which he was Fellow, taking the degree of B.A. in 1658, and that of M.A. in 1662. In 1672 he was appointed Greek professor in that university, and in 1671 published a collection of the ancient Mythological Writers, entitled “Opuscula Mythologica “Ethica et Physica, Graece et Latine,” 8vo. In the next year he obtained the mastership of St. Paul’s School, London. “the which situation,” says Dr. Whitaker, “he was employed to write the the inscriptions now remaining* on the monument of the great fire, which by no fault of the writer, ‘like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies,’ in imputing that great calamity to a party, whom all reasonable men now acknowledge to have had no participation in the fact. In 1675, he accumulated the degrees of B.D. and D.D. at Cambridge and in the following year was made a prebendary of the Metropolitan Cathedral. In 1677 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, which, at that period, comprehended men of virtue of every description; and in 1695, deservedly removed to the deanery of York, a dignity he enjoyed not quite five years. He died 7 April 1702 and was buried in York Minster, 15th, M.I.
*The offensive passage has recently been expunged.
Thomas Gale was married to Barbara, daughter of Thos. Pepys of Trampington, Cambridge. She died 1689. Thomas and Barbara had son Roger Gale, born 1672. He married at York Minster
11th August 1702-Henrietta Raper, of Cowling Hall, co York.

From "The Parish Register of Scruton 1572-1838' by Yorks Archaelogical Society. Preface; "Sir Abstrupus Danby sold it (the manor of Scruton) in 1688 to Dr Thomas Gale, high master of St. Paul's School London and later Dean of York. Dr Gale, and his sons Roger and Samuel, were nationally known figures. Dr Gale married a second cousin of Samuel Pepys the diarist, and was a thome in London's learned society; although he had purchased the manor of Scruton, he spent most of his time in London. However his son Roger built himself a mansion at Scruton, Scruton House later re-named Scruton Hall. Much of his work as an antiquarian was carried out in his library at Scruton with his 'old friends in leather coats' , and his brother-in-law William Stukeley has left us a pleasing drawing on Roger with his sister Elizabeth in their garden at Scruton. Roger's descendants held the estate until 1839, when the property passed through marriage to the Coore family.

Thomas married Barbara Pepys, daughter of Thomas Pepys and Unknown. (Barbara Pepys died in 1689.)