The John Bargrave Collection
Miles Gale (1647 - 1721)
Clergyman and rector of Keighley. "He was a man of many talents and donated to Ralph Thoresby's museum in Leeds, among other items, ‘a reel with silk and silver twist wound upon it, after it was inclosed in a small Bottle; the Cork is also fastened on the In-side with three Wood Pins, by the ingenuity of the Rev. Mr. Miles Gale, Rector of Kighley’ (Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis, catalogue 46). He also gave the museum a copy of his short Account of Kighley and his Memoirs of the Family of Gale. ‘For the Credit of Leeds and honour of the country it is to be hoped that his memoirs of the family of Gale survived the wreck of Thoresby's Museum [in 1764] where they had been confidently deposited as in a secure place’ [Keighley, Keighley past and present (1879): 147]." (DNB)Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10293?docPos=7 Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Keighley
People linked to person: Miles Gale was a donor to Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)