september june english scholar member parliament father professor cambridge younger gale attended graduation gale briefly served diplomat france holding position reader oxford_university father death gale retired family estate elected parliament served continued public service retired estates governmental career gale member served treasurer gale known collector manuscripts antiquarian items writing published works subjects donated manuscript collection alma mater died contemporaries felt foremost scholars age later historians convinced contrasting learning father early life eldest son father dean york professor greek cambridge_university mother cousin roger born september thomas barbara younger son daughter elizabeth second wife gale educated london father charge went attend starting earning bachelor_of_arts master arts reader library oxford_university march soon probably later went earl manchester diplomatic mission france father died gale retired newly inherited estates yorkshire public service elected member parliament election remained usually voting working committees concerned regulating servant wages foreigners leaving parliament appointed commission dealing stamp duties later commissioner remained position removed free post friends gale served vice president treasurer number years returned estates retired public life writer gale inherited father library manuscripts books eventually donated alma mater included gale donation complete manuscripts known gale collected coins donated collection cambridge_university gale translated science des english title knowledge medals designed instruction beginning coin collector contained information protect new collector fraud gale published father work gale supplemented notes commentary major published work editor 12th century manuscript register honour richmond contained cotton library contributed number essays antiquarian topics journal gale letters survive published volume later appeared finally complete letters published volumes letters brother samuel brother law declared gale learned men age later scholars praise writing 1950s contrasted gale father felt younger gale given greater reputation deserved notwithstanding douglas opinion gale work preserve important historical information member new style instead working manuscripts turned topography relics countryside group record information disappeared death family gale married daughter kent died son born gale died june estates buried near church monument churchyard stipulated buried manner know exactly buried
Roger Gale (antiquary)