Thomas Francis Dale

Thomas Francis Dale (1848–1923)[1][2] was an English army chaplain, known as an author on fox hunting and polo.

Pelham Dale and his wife Mary Francis, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School.

[5][6][7] Over the period 1876 to 1880, his father, an Anglican ritualist who also joined the Society of the Holy Cross, defied liturgical restrictions imposed by the Court of Arches and ended up in prison.

[1] Dale acted as manager for the Ranelagh Club polo team; this was after 1894, when Major F. Herbert, the founder, gave up the position.

[21] He wrote a novel about a fox, Two Fortunes and Old Patch (1898), with Frances Elizabeth Slaughter, another sporting writer.