Author: Gale, Thomas
Biography:
GALE, Thomas (1789-1866: ancestry.co.uk)
It is possible to trace this author because his address is given in his one published book as Great Guildford Street, Southwark, London. The preface to Scripture Similitudes, dated 31 Oct. 1821, states that the book, intended for young people, is presented to the public with “extreme diffidence.” Gale, the son of Thomas and Jane Gale, was born on 5 Feb. 1789 and baptised at St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, on 4 Mar. He married Martha Pearce at Saint Saviour, Southwark, on 18 July 1813; they had at least three children, one daughter and two sons. Martha was born in Somerset in 1793. In the 1841 Census Thomas Gale is named as a beadle but in 1851 he is said to be a house agent. The 1861 Census, taken when he and Martha were living at 9 Canterbury Place in Walworth, identifies him as a retired beadle. Gale died in 1866 and was buried in a common grave in the Brompton cemetery on 26 Oct. 1866. The subscription list to his Scripture Similitudes is exclusively London-based. Three copies went to the teachers of the Sunday school in Pedlars Acre (Lambeth) and it is possible he was one of the teachers. (ancestry.co.uk 9 Oct. 2024) SR