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Thomas Francis Dale (1848–1923) was an English army chaplain, known as an author on fox hunting and polo.

Life

He was the son of the Rev. Pelham Dale and his wife Mary Francis, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. He matriculated at

The Queen's College, Oxford The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault. It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, ...

in 1867, graduating B.A. in 1870, M.A. in 1874. Dale was rector of Jarrow from 1875 to 1876, and then for two years was secretary of the Additional Curates' Society, Northern District, being a member of the

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. In 1878 he became a chaplain in Bombay. Over the period 1876 to 1880, his father, an Anglican

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who also joined the Society of the Holy Cross, defied liturgical restrictions imposed by the

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and ended up in prison. From 1885 to 1896, Dale was on the ecclesiastical establishment of Amritsar. Dale acted as manager for the

Ranelagh Club The Ranelagh Club was a polo club located at Barn Elms in south west London, England. It was founded in 1878 as a split-off from the Hurlingham Club and by 1894 was the largest polo club in the world. The club had approximately 3000 members in 1 ...

polo team; this was after 1894, when Major F. Herbert, the founder, gave up the position. He wrote on polo ponies and was a member of the Polo Pony Society. He died at Burley, Hampshire on 13 October 1923.

Works

*''Riding'' (1891), with Robert Weir and James Moray Brown. *''Game of Polo'' (1897) *''Riding and Polo Ponies'' (1899) *''The History of the Belvoir Hunt'' (1899) *''Riding, Driving and Kindred Sports'' (1899), vol. 1 of The Sports Library *''The Eighth Duke of Beaufort and the Badminton Hunt: With a Sketch of the Rise of the Somerset Family'' (1901) *''Fox-hunting in the Shires'' (1903) *''Polo Past and Present'' (1905) *''The Fox'' (1906), illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and G. Giles. *''The Stable Handbook'' (1907) *''Polo at Home and Abroad'' (1915) In '' The Field'', Dale wrote under the pseudonym "Stoneclink". He wrote a novel about a fox, ''Two Fortunes and Old Patch'' (1898), with Frances Elizabeth Slaughter, another sporting writer. In her 1907 book on dogs, she included "Bruce", who belonged to Dale, and a spaniel belonging to his sister Helen Dale.

Family

Dale married in 1869 Frances Marianna Cockburn Witty (1849-1940), daughter of the solicitor Richard Henry Witty. Their children included: *Thomas Cyril Dale (1870–1937), cleric. *Evelyn Mary Frances Dale (1873-1960) *Francis Harold Dale (1876-1940)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dale, Thomas Francis 1848 births 1923 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests English writers