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Authorised form of nameGale; Roger (1672 - 1744)
Dates1672 - 1744
NationalityBritish
Place of birthImpington, Cambridgeshire, England
Date of birth1672
Place of deathScruton, Yorkshire
Date of death25 June 1744
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Scruton, Yorkshire
Research fieldAntiquities
ActivityEducation:
St Paul's School; Trinity College, Cambridge; BA (1694/5), MA (1698); Incorporated at Oxford (1699)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity (1697); MP for Northallerton, Yorkshire (1705-1713); Commissioner of Stamp Duties (1714-1715); Commissioner of Excise (1715-1735); left manuscripts to Trinity College and his collection of coins to Cambridge University Library
Memberships:
FSA; Spalding Society; Brasenose Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election28/03/1717
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Treas 1728-1736; VP 1728-; Council 1718, 1720, 1722, 1724, 1726-1730
RelationshipsSon of Dr Thomas Gale, Dean of York (FRS 1677) and his wife, Barbara, daughter of Thomas Pepys; married Henrietta, daughter of Henry Raper, Esq; brother-in-law of William Stukeley (FRS 1718)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB;Venn; Thomas
References:
'Gentleman's Magazine' 1744, p394
Notes:
St Paul's School has birth date of 1675. Proposed by Robert Balle
CodeNA2848
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RBO/17/15'An account of a pretended Shower of Wheat' in a letter from William Stukeley to Roger Gale1732
RBO/11/99'Account of a Roman Inscription found at Chichester' by Roger Gale31 October 1723
LBO/24/23Copy letter from Roger Gale, Scruton near Bedale in Yorkshire, to the President 6 November 1737
L&P/1/346Letter, 'Concerning the germination of melon seeds 33 years old; and, of a skeleton of a man found with stag's horns near Bakewell' from Roger Gale to Peter Collinson1745
CLP/16/49Paper, regarding the conveyance of a marble sepulchre owned by Hans Sloane by Roger Gale1735
CLP/8ii/74Paper, 'An account of the observations of the late solar eclipse made at Edinborough [Edinburgh] on 18 February 1737' by Sir John Clerk[1737]
EL/S2/66Letter, from William Stukeley to Roger Gale, dated at Stamford5 May 1733
CLP/16/43/1Manuscript, 'An account of a Roman inscription found at Chichester [England]' by Roger Gale31 October 1723
CLP/16/43/2Figure, Roman inscription found at Chichester, England by Roger Gale31 October 1723
CLP/16/43Paper, 'An account of a Roman inscription found at Chichester [England]' by Roger Gale31 October 1723
CLP/16/49/2Figure, conveyance of a marble sepulchre owned by Hans Sloane by Roger Gale1735
CLP/22ii/47Paper, Account of an extract of John Clerk's dissertation 'De Stylis Veterum et diversis Chartarum generibus [Concerning the pen of the ancients and the diverse origins of paper]' by Roger Gale1731
CLP/16/49/1Manuscript, regarding the conveyance of a marble sepulchre owned by Hans Sloane by Roger Gale1735
RBO/16/43Account of some curiosities from Cumberland by Sir John Clark, one of the Barons of his Majesty's Exchequer in Scotland, to Roger Gale 1731
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