David Dale

David Dale (1739-1806) was a Glasgow linen-merchant, philanthropist, magistrate of Glasgow in 1791 and 1794, and minister to a Congregational church in Greyfriar’s Wynd, Glasgow (Dale seceded from the Church of Scotland in 1768). In 1799 he sold his mills at Lanark to Robert Owen, who married Dale’s eldest daughter and who would later put his social theories into practice at New Lanark, Scotland, and New Harmony, Indiana. Dale made generous donations to the cause of the Baptist Mission.