DALE, Valentine (by 1527-89), of Doctors’ Commons, London.

Family and Education

b. by 1527, s. of John Dale. educ. King’s sch. Worcester; Oxf. supp. BA 1541, fellow, All Souls 1542-50, BCL 1545; Orleans Univ. DCL by 1552; adv. Doctors’ Commons Jan. 1554; Camb. incorp. LLD 1562, m. Elizabeth, wid. of one Forth, 1da. suc. cos. William Dale of Fyfield, Hants May 1566.Date of birth estimated from education. C142/152/142; Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. 1501-40, pp. 158-9; Lansd. 2(41), f. 99; C. Coote, Civilians, 38; G. D. Squibb, Doctors’ Commons, 151; PCC 92 Leicester; CSP For. 1572-4, p. 415.

Offices Held

?Sec. to the embassy to France 1553 – 54; surrogate, ct. Admiralty by 1557, jt. commissary-gen. 1585; ambassador, Netherlands 1563 – 64, Paris 1573 – 76, the Duke of Parma 1588; archdeacon, Surr. Feb. or Mar. 1573; dean, Bath and Wells 1574 – d.; master of requests 1576 – d., of Chancery by 1579, of Sherburn House hosp., co. Dur. 1585 – d.; commr. eccles. c. 1581; j.p.q. Hants by 1583–d.CSP For. 1553–8, p. 68 passim to 1558, p. 43; D. Lloyd, State Worthies (1705), 564; Sel. Pleas in Ct. Admiralty (Selden Soc. xi), 98; Index 16772, pp. 321, 330; APC, ix. 229; x. 161; xiv. 7; Strype, Aylmer, 62, 87; Annals, iii(2), 462.

Parlimentarian

DALE, Valentine (by 1527-89), of Doctors’ Commons, London.

Main residence: Doctors' Commons, London.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

DALE, Valentine (by 1527-89)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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