in the previous year declined the deanery of Ely. The deanery house at Rochester being under repair, he went on a visit to his son, the Rev. Thomas Pelham Dale, at No. 2 Amen Court, St. Paul's, London, where he died rather suddenly on 14 May 1870. His will was proved on 27 May under 18,000l. He was an old-fashioned high church evangelical. He married in 1819, at St. Michael's, Cornhill, Emily Jane, daughter of J. M. Richardson of 23 Cornhill, London, publisher, East India agent, and stockbroker. She died at Russell Square, London, 6 April 1849, aged 47.
He published upwards of seventy works, but besides those already noticed it is only necessary to mention:
- ‘An Introductory Lecture to a Course upon the Principles and Practice of English Composition,’ 1828.
- ‘The Iris,’ ed. by T. Dale, 1830.
- ‘Sermons, Practical and Doctrinal, preached in the church of St. Bride,’ 1831.
- ‘Access to God;’ five discourses preached before the university of Cambridge, 1832.
- ‘The Young Pastor's Guide to the Practice of the Christian Ministry,’ 1835.
- ‘Poetical Works,’ 1836.
- ‘Companion for the Altar, with preparatory consideration,’ 1836.
- ‘Probation for the Christian Ministry;’ four discourses before the university of Cambridge, 1836.
- ‘The Domestic Liturgy and Family Chaplain,’ 1846.
- ‘Address to the Parishioners of St. Pancras on the results of the Parochial System,’ 1847.
- ‘The Sabbath Companion, being Essays on First Principles of Christian Faith and Practice,’ 1844; 3rd ed. 1853.
- ‘Five Years of Church Extension in St. Pancras,’ 1852.
- ‘Church Rates in St. Pancras,’ 1855.
- ‘New Year Addresses to the members of the Congregation of St. Pancras,’ 1857.
- ‘Poems of W. Cowper, with a Biographical and Critical Introduction by T. Dale,’ 1859; 2nd ed. 1867.
[Drawing-room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages, 4th ser. 1860; Church of England Photographic Portrait Gallery, 1859, portrait 24; Times, 17 May 1870, p. 6; Illustrated London News, 31 Dec. 1859, p. 647, with portrait, 28 May 1870, p. 563, and 18 June, p. 643; Cussans's Hertfordshire, i. pt. iii. pp. 127, 129; Palmer's St. Pancras (1870), pp. 43, 142, 159–61.]
DALE, VALENTINE, D.C.L. (d. 1589), civilian and diplomatist, supplicated the university of Oxford in 1541 for the degree of B.A., but does not appear to have been admitted. He was, however, elected a fellow of All Souls' College in 1542 (Boase, Reg. of the Univ. of Oxford, i. 201). In November 1545 he proceeded to the degree of bachelor of the civil law; and in 1550 he wrote from All Souls' College to Sir William Cecil, desiring his interest to procure for him the situation of official of the archdeaconry of York. Subsequently he travelled in France, and at Orleans was created a doctor of civil law. Having more than once supplicated the university of Oxford for that degree, it is supposed that he was incorporated there in November 1552 (Wood, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 136). On 14 Jan. 1553–4 he was admitted a member of the College of Advocates at Doctors' Commons (Coote, English Civilians, p. 38). It is said that he was a member of the House of Commons in the parliament of 21 Oct. 1555, and it has been surmised that he then represented Taunton, as he certainly did in the parliament which met 20 Jan. 1557–8, and probably also in that of 23 Jan. 1588–9. On 9 July 1562 he was incorporated LL.D. in the university of Cambridge (Addit. MS. 5867, f. 18 b).
In 1562–3 he was ambassador in Flanders, receiving his final despatch from the regent on 6 Feb. He was again sent to Flanders, in December 1563, to answer the complaints against England for lack of justice and for depredations. In the parliament of 8 May 1572 he sat for the city of Chichester, being at or about that time one of the masters of requests. On 15 Feb. 1572–3 he was presented to the archdeaconry of Surrey. On 19 March 1572–3 he was appointed resident ambassador in France, where he continued till 1576. In the meanwhile (18 Jan. 1573–4) he became dean of Wells. Between 1576 and 1580 he served on several important royal commissions. To the parliament which assembled on 23 Nov. 1584 he was returned both for the city of Chichester and the borough of Hindon, Wiltshire, and it is probable that he elected to serve for Chichester. On 30 Jan. 1584–5 the queen issued a commission to Dale and Dr. Julius Cæsar to exercise admiralty jurisdiction during the vacancy of the office of lord high admiral (State Papers, Domestic, Eliz. vol. clxxvi. No. 20). On 20 Feb. 1584–5 Dale was in the special commission of oyer and terminer for Middlesex, under which Dr. Parry was arraigned and convicted of high treason. On 22 March following he was presented to the mastership of Sherburn Hospital, co. Durham. His name occurs in the special commission for Middlesex (5 Sept. 1586), under which Anthony Babington [q. v.] and others were indicted for treason. He assisted at the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, at Fotheringhay, in October the same year; and to the parliament which met on the 15th of that month he was again returned for Chichester. He acted as one of the high commissioners for causes eccle-
