Theophilus Gale, an English theologian, born at King's Teignton, Devonshire, in 1628, died at Newington in March, 1678. He graduated at Magdalen college, Oxford, in 1649, became a fellow and an active tutor in 1650, and afterward a popular preacher in Winchester. At the restoration he was ejected from his fellowship for nonconformity. In 1677 he became pastor of a congregation at Holborn, and afterward taught private pupils at Newington. At his decease he left his property to trustees for the education of dissenting students, and bequeathed bis library to Harvard college for the promotion of his principles in New England. Besides his great work, The Court of the Gentiles, or a Discourse touching the Original of Human Literature, both Philologic and Philosophic, from the Scriptures and Jewish Church," etc. (5 vols. 4to, 1669-'77), be published The True Ideal of Jansenism" (1669), Philosophia Generalis (1676), sermons, etc.