Miles Gale (1647–1721) was an English antiquary. Gale was the eldest son of John Gale. His father, a descendant of the Gales of

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and

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in Yorkshire, served under

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in the

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(1622–5), returned to England, and lived in retirement on his estate at Farnley, near

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, refusing a commission from the parliament on the outbreak of the civil war. His mother was Joanna, daughter of Miles Dodson of

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, Yorkshire. Miles was born at Farnley Hall on 19 June 1647. He was educated at

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, where he graduated B.A. in 1666 and M.A. in 1670. Having taken holy orders he was presented to the rectory of

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(1680), which he continued to hold until his death in the night of 2–3 January 1720–1. Gale was a friend of

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, the eminent glass-painter of

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, and was extremely interested in antiquarian research. He compiled and presented two manuscripts to

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in Leeds: # ''Memoirs of the Family of Gale, particularly of the learned Dr. Thomas Gale, Dean of York, and Christopher Gale, Esq., Her Majesty's Attorney-general in North Carolina'', 1703 # ''A Description of the Parish of Keighley''. Miles married Margaret, daughter of Christopher Stones, D.D., chancellor of York (1660–87), by whom he had issue four sons and one daughter. His eldest son was

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, attorney-general of

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in 1703, judge of the admiralty of North Carolina in 1712, and chief justice of Providence and the

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in 1721.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gale, Miles 1647 births 1721 deaths English antiquarians 17th-century antiquarians 18th-century antiquarians 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers 18th-century English people Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge People from Farnley, Leeds