SAMUEL DALE AND THE DALE FAMILY. 57
twenty, he proceeded to Edinburgh, where, five years later,
on 12th June 1775, when about twenty-five, he took his degree
as M.D. The Latin thesis he presented on this occasion was a
treatise on erysipelas, entitled Disputatio Medica Inaugnralis
de Erysipelate.45 He is described on the title-page as "Caro-
linensis Meridionalis, Soc. Med. Edin. Soc." On 26th June 1786,
he was admitted a Licentiate of the (London) College of
Physicians. Thereafter, until his death, he practised in the
City of London. He is described as having been a good classical
scholar, acquainted with various European languages, and one
of the founders of the Literary Fund. From 1790, for a number
of years, he was Honorary Treasurer of the College. He died
at his house in Devonshire Square on 21st February 1816, aged
sixty-six, and was buried in Bunhill Fields.46
This Dr. Thomas Dale (junior), by his will, made 14th January
1815, and proved in London 4th July 1816,47 bequeathed to
his son, Alfred Dale, his freehold estate in Great Leighs, near
Braintree, and directs that his personal property (other than
his plate, linen, china, &c., which he gives to his "dear wife"48)
shall be divided into three parts, one part to go to each of
his three daughters, Catherine Sarah, Mary Ann, and Caroline,
while he appoints his wife and his son Alfred as his executors.
As to what became of the children (the son and the three daugh-
ters), I know nothing.
Soon after the death of Dr. Thomas Dale the Younger, his
widow and family presented to the Society of Apothecaries of
London the portrait of his great uncle, Dr. Samuel Dale, of
Braintree, Which still hangs in their Hall in Water Lane, Ludgate
Hill.
Returning now to Samuel Dale, already mentioned,50
son of North Dale, the silk-throwster, of St. Mary Whitechapel,
and younger brother of Francis Dale, we find that the place and
date of his birth are not known. There is, however, evidence
45 It was published as a post-octavo pamphlet of 45 pages, printed at Edinburgh by Balfour
and Smellie, of the University Press. There are no fewer than five copies in the British Museum.
46 See Munk's Roy. Coll. of Physicians, ii., pp. 362-363; also Dict. Nat. Biogr., xiii.,
p. 386 (1888), where he is stated erroneously to have been born in 1729.
47 Som. House, Wynne 358.
48 As he leaves her nothing else, she was probably provided already with adequate means
of subsistence. Her Christian name does not appear.
49 It is inscribed on the back:—"Samuel Dale, M.L., 1731. Died 1738; aged 79. Pre-
sented to the Society by the Widow and Family of Thomas Dale, M.D., who was his great great
nephew, 1816." See also Essex Naturalist, xvii. (1913), p. 132 n., where the portrait is repro-
duced.
50 See ante, p. 52.