BALE, SACKVILLE SPENCER, son of Sackville Bale, Westminster, official in Lord Steward’s Department, Royal Household; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1733; KS 1738; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1742, matr. 19 Jun 1742, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1742 - res 26 Jun 1749; BA 1746; MA 18 Mar 1748/9; First Yeoman of Accompting House, Royal Household 28 Jan 1742 - Dec 1760; ordained deacon 15 May 1749; Domestic Chaplain to Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (qv) 22 May 1749, and to Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset (qv) 31 Oct 1765; Rector of Withyham, Sussex, 22 May 1749 - 10 Oct 1777; Vicar of Rottingdean, Sussex, 20 May 1751-5; Rector of Chiddingstone, Kent, 29 Apr 1755-82; “the worthy parish priest and ever faithful friend” of George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (qv) (Cumberland, Memoirs, ii, 253); m. 19 Sep 1752 Louisa, dau. of Henry Godde, St. Anne’s, Soho; buried Withyham 28 Jan 1793.