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Thomas Francis Dale

Thomas Francis Dale (1848–1923)[1][2] was an English army chaplain, known as an author on fox hunting and polo.

Thomas Francis Dale

Life

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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 in 1867, graduating B.A. in 1870, M.A. in 1874.[3][4][5]

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 Society of the Holy Cross. In 1878 he became a chaplain in Bombay.[5][6][7] Over the period 1876 to 1880, his father, an Anglican ritualist who also joined the Society of the Holy Cross, defied liturgical restrictions imposed by the Court of Arches and ended up in prison.[3]

From 1885 to 1896, Dale was on the ecclesiastical establishment of Amritsar.[1]

Dale acted as manager for the Ranelagh Club polo team; this was after 1894, when Major F. Herbert, the founder, gave up the position.[8][9] He wrote on polo ponies and was a member of the Polo Pony Society.[10] He died at Burley, Hampshire on 13 October 1923.[11]

Works

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"Gleaning after the Hunters", illustration from The Fox (1906) by Thomas Francis Dale, Godfrey Douglas Giles, and Archibald Thorburn
  • Riding (1891),[12] with Robert Weir and James Moray Brown.
  • Game of Polo (1897)[13]
  • Riding and Polo Ponies (1899)[10]
  • The History of the Belvoir Hunt (1899)[14]
  • 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)[15]
  • Fox-hunting in the Shires (1903)[16]
  • Polo Past and Present (1905)[17]
  • The Fox (1906),[18] illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and G. Giles.
  • The Stable Handbook (1907)[19]
  • Polo at Home and Abroad (1915)[20]

In The Field, Dale wrote under the pseudonym "Stoneclink".[21] He wrote a novel about a fox, Two Fortunes and Old Patch (1898), with Frances Elizabeth Slaughter, another sporting writer.[22] In her 1907 book on dogs, she included "Bruce", who belonged to Dale, and a spaniel belonging to his sister Helen Dale.[23]

Family

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Dale married Frances Marianna Cockburn Witty (1849–1940), daughter of the solicitor Richard Henry Witty, in 1869. Their children included:[1]

  • Thomas Cyril Dale (1870–1937), cleric.[24]
  • Evelyn Mary Frances Dale (1873–1960)
  • Francis Harold Dale (1876–1940)

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1906). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 14. Private printing. p. 42. Retrieved 19 June 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Russell, Valerie (30 July 1976). New Forest ponies. David & Charles. p. 104.
  3. ^ a b Wilson, Alan. "Dale, Thomas Pelham". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Dale, Thomas Francis" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  5. ^ a b Robinson, Charles John (1882). A register of the scholars admitted into Merchant Taylors' School: from A.D. 1562 to 1874. Vol. II. Lewes: Farncombe & Co. p. 337. Retrieved 19 June 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ The Pall Mall Budget: Being a Weekly Collection of Articles Printed in the Pall Mall Gazette from Day to Day, with a Summary of News. 1875. p. 36.
  7. ^ "The Roll of Brethren and Probationers of the Society of the Holy Cross (1876-1877)". Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  8. ^ Laffaye, Horace A. (29 May 2009). The Evolution of Polo. McFarland. p. 83. ISBN 9780786454150. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  9. ^ Dale, T. F. (6 September 2017). Polo - Past and Present. Read Books Limited. p. 58. ISBN 9781473340053. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  10. ^ a b Laffaye, Horace A. (16 March 2012). Polo in Britain: A History. McFarland. p. 245. ISBN 9780786489800. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  11. ^ Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes. 1923. p. 236.
  12. ^ Weir, Robert; Brown, James Moray; Dale, T. F. (1891). Riding. Longmens, Green, and Company. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  13. ^ Laffaye, Horace A. (29 May 2009). The Evolution of Polo. McFarland. p. 324. ISBN 9780786454150. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  14. ^ Dale, Thomas Francis (1899). The History of the Belvoir Hunt. A. Constable and Company. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  15. ^ Dale, Thomas Francis (1901). The Eighth Duke of Beaufort and the Badminton Hunt: With a Sketch of the Rise of the Somerset Family. A. Constable and Company, Limited. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  16. ^ Dale, Thomas Francis (1903). Fox-hunting in the Shires. G. Richards. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  17. ^ Dale, Thomas Francis (1905). Polo Past and Present. Offices of Country Life. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  18. ^ Dale, Thomas Francis (1906). The Fox. Longmans, Green, and Company. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  19. ^ Dale, Thomas Francis (1907). The Stable Handbook. J. Lane, The Bodley Head. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  20. ^ Dale, Thomas Francis (1915). Polo at Home and Abroad. London & Counties Press Association. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  21. ^ Carty, T.J. (3 December 2015). A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Routledge. p. 386. ISBN 9781135955786. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  22. ^ The Academy and Literature. 1898. p. 333.
  23. ^ Slaughter, Frances Elizabeth (1907). ""The one" dog and "the others", a study of canine character". Internet Archive. London: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. xx–xxi. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  24. ^ "Dale, Thomas Cyril (DL889TC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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