In 1635 or 1636 Thomas Gale was born at Scruton, Hambleton.
On 1st January 1673 Thomas Gale [aged 38] and Barbara Pepys were married.
After 1st January 1673 [his son] Roger Gale was born to Thomas Gale [aged 38] and [his wife] Barbara Pepys at Impington. Some sources describe his birth on 27th September 1672 however this is inconsistent with his parents marriage on 1st January 1673. He married in or before 1710 Henrietta Roper.
In 1676 Thomas Gale [aged 41] was appointed Prebendary St Paul's Cathedral.
In 1677 Thomas Gale [aged 42] was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society.
On 17th December 1682 [his son] Samuel Gale was born to Thomas Gale [aged 47] and [his wife] Barbara Pepys in the parish of St Faith's under St Paul's [Map].
John Evelyn's Diary. 29th January 1683. Supped at Sir Joseph Williamson's [aged 49], where was a select company of our Society, Sir William Petty [aged 59], Dr. Gale [aged 48] (that learned schoolmaster of St. Paul's), Dr. Whistler, Mr. Hill, etc. The conversation was philosophical and cheerful, on divers considerable questions proposed; as of the hereditary succession of the Roman Emperors; the Pica mentioned in the preface to our Common Prayer, which signifies only the Greek Kalendarium. These were mixed with lighter subjects.
On 30th August 1687 [his daughter] Elizabeth Gale was born to Thomas Gale [aged 52] and [his wife] Barbara Pepys in the parish of St Faith's under St Paul's [Map]. She married 1739 William Stukeley.
1689. Godfrey Kneller [aged 42]. Portrait of Thomas Gale [aged 54].
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In 1689 [his wife] Barbara Pepys died.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th March 1695. The new edition of Camden's "Britannia" was now published (by Bishop Gibson [aged 26]), with great additions; those to Surrey were mine, so that I had one presented to me. Dr. Gale [aged 60] showed me a MS. of some parts of the New Testament in vulgar Latin, that had belonged to a monastery in the North of Scotland, which he esteemed to be about eight hundred years old; there were some considerable various readings observable, as in John i., and genealogy of St. Luke.
John Evelyn's Diary. 29th September 1695. Very cold weather. Sir Purbeck Temple, uncle to my son Draper, died suddenly. A great funeral at Addiscombe. His lady being own aunt to my son Draper, he hopes for a good fortune, there being no heir. There had been a new meeting of the commissioners about Greenwich Hospital [Map], on the new commission, where the Lord Mayor, etc. appeared, but I was prevented by indisposition from attending. The weather very sharp, winter approaching apace. The King [aged 44] went a progress into the north, to show himself to the people against the elections, and was everywhere complimented, except at Oxford, Oxfordshire [Map], where it was not as he expected, so that he hardly stopped an hour there, and having seen the theater, did not receive the banquet proposed. I dined with Dr. Gale [aged 60] at St. Paul's school, who showed me many curious passages out of some ancient Platonists' MSS. concerning the Trinity, which this great and learned person would publish, with many other rare things, if he was encouraged, and eased of the burden of teaching.
In 1697 Thomas Gale [aged 62] was appointed Dean of York.
On 8th April 1702 Thomas Gale [aged 67] died.
Antonini Itinerarium aka Antonine Itinerary aka Gale's Itinerary by Thomas Gale was published posthumously, with notes, by his son Roger Gale [aged 35].