Thomas Dale (priest)

As an evangelical and "Christian ideologue" he found the university secular to the point of being "godless", clashed in particular with his colleague Thomas Hewitt Key, and resigned, to be succeeded by Alexander Blair.

In 1835, he became vicar of St. Bride, Fleet Street; and in 1836, professor of English literature at King’s College London, before resigning in 1839.

[5][6][7] Dale became a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral in 1843, holding the stall of Caddington Minor and an honorary canon.

There is an inscription on the grave in remembrance of his wife Emily Jane, though she is buried in the vaults of St Pancras New Church.

Dale, being convinced of the danger of interment in crowded centres, had put aside his strong desire to be placed beside her in death and given the weight of his influence to the sealing up of the vaults of the Church.