Thomas Gale (
1635/1636? –
1702), English classical scholar and antiquarian, was born at
Scruton, Yorkshire. He was educated at
Westminster School and
Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow.
In 1666 he was appointed
Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, in 1672 high master of
St Paul's School, in 1676
prebendary of
St Paul's, in 1677 a fellow of the
Royal Society, and in 1697 dean of York. He died at
York on the 7th (or 8th) of April 1702.
He published a collection,
Opuscula mythologica, ethica, et physica, and editions of several Greek and Latin authors, but his fame rests chiefly on his collection of old works bearing on early English history, entitled
Historiae Anglicanae scriptores and
Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae scriptores XV. He was the author of the inscription on the London
Monument, later removed, in which the
Roman Catholics were accused of having originated the great fire.
He was the father of two noted antiquarians,
Roger Gale and
Samuel Gale, and father-in-law of the Rev. Dr.
William Stukeley. 
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