Bernard Hale (priest)

Bernard Hale (died 29 March 1663) was a 17th-century English clergyman and academic, who served as Archdeacon of Ely and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

[1] The Hale family had made a fortune in London in the grocery business in the sixteenth century and then settled in Saffron Walden, where they were still living in Victorian times.

[1] He was a Fellow of Peterhouse 1632–34,[1] resigning the fellowship on the death of his father, which left him with a plentiful inheritance.

He lived in London and then Norfolk, using his resources to provide for the local poor and for exhibitions for university students.

[1] In 1663 Hale was "seized with a paralytic stupor" for three days,[4] dying on 29 March 1663.