GALE, Dr Thomas, a learned divine, born at Scruton, in Yorkshire, in the year 1636, was educated at Cambridge, and at length became professor of the Greek language in that university. He was afterwards chosen head master of St Paul's school, London, and was employed by the city in writing the elegant inscriptions on the monument erected in memory of the conflagration in 1666. In 1676 he was collated to a prebend in the cathedral of St Paul's; and was likewise elected a fellow of the Royal Society, to which he presented a Roman urn with its ashes. About the year 1697, he gave to the new library of Trinity College, Cambridge, a great number of Arabian manuscripts; and in the same year he was admitted as Dean of York. He died in that city in 1702, and was interred in the cathedral, where a monument, with a Latin inscription, was erected to his memory. He was a learned divine, an eminent historian, one of the best Greek scholars of his age, and maintained a correspondence with the most learned men abroad as well as at home. He published, 1. Historiæ Poeticæ Scriptores Antiqui, Paris, 1675, in 8vo; 2. Opuscula Mythologica, Ethica, et Physica, Cambridge, 1671, in 8vo; 3. Herodoti Historiarum libri x. London,
1679, in fol.; 4. Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores quinque, Oxford, 1687, in fol.; 5. Historiæ Britannicæ, Saxonice, Anglo-Danice, Scriptores quindecim, Oxford, 1691, in fol.; 6. Rhetores Selecti, and other works.