By profession Gale was a solicitor in Westminster and a Parliamentary agent, but he was also a prolific writer and journalist, often using the pen name "Old Buffer".
As a journalist and columnist he contributed to Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, continuing to write until his death.
[2] Gale was born at Woodborough in Wiltshire, the son of a Church of England clergyman who was rector of Godmersham between 1829 and 1864.
[1] He married Claudia Severn in 1852; the couple had a son and four daughters.
[3] Gale moved to Manitoba in Canada in 1891 but later returned to England and was a visitor at The Oval until the year before his death.