| Authorised form of name | Gale; Roger (1672 - 1744) |
| Dates | 1672 - 1744 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Impington, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Date of birth | 1672 |
| Place of death | Scruton, Yorkshire |
| Date of death | 25 June 1744 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Scruton, Yorkshire |
| Research field | Antiquities |
| Activity | Education:
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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 28/03/1717 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
Treas 1728-1736; VP 1728-; Council 1718, 1720, 1722, 1724, 1726-1730 |
| Relationships | Son 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) |
| Sources | Sources:
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 |
| Royal Society code | NA2848 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EL/S2/66 | William Stukeley, dated at Stamford, to Roger Gale | 5 May 1733 |
| RBO/11/99 | 'Account of a Roman Inscription found at Chichester' by Roger Gale | 31 October 1723 |
| RBO/17/15 | 'An account of a pretended Shower of Wheat' in a letter from William Stukeley to Roger Gale | 1732 |
| CLP/16/43 | Account of a Roman inscription found at Chichester by Roger Gale | 31 October 1723 |
| LBO/24/23 | Copy letter from Roger Gale, Scruton near Bedale in Yorkshire, to the President | 6 November 1737 |
| CLP/8ii/74 | Paper, account of observations of the late solar eclipse made at Edinburgh on 18 February 1737 by Sir John Clerk | [1737] |
| L&P/1/346 | Letter, '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 Collinson | 1745 |
| CLP/22ii/47 | Paper, 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 Gale | 1731 |
| RBO/16/43 | Account of some curiosities from Cumberland by Sir John Clark, one of the Barons of his Majesty's Exchequer in Scotland, to Roger Gale | 1731 |