• Name: Jones, John Gale
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 16  October  1769
• Death Date: 4  March  1838
• Occupation: reformer
• Occupation: surgeon
• Occupation: apothecary

Godwin meets John Gale Jones just seven times between 1796 and 1831 - so they are hardly intimate. Gale Jones was a reformer, who shared the platform at the Copenhagen Fields meeting in October 1795, and travelled to Brimingham in an attempt to keep the popular reform movement going in 1796. In the same year he made a tour of the docklands of Rochester and Chatham, publishing an account in which he reported the wide acceptance of reformist ideas and disatisfaction with Pitt's government (Sketch of a Political Tour through Rochester, Chatham, Maidstone, and Gravesend (1796). He was imprisoned in 1810, for his political activity and for a libel on Lord Castlereagh, but in the 1820s his commitment to reform declined and he returned to Somers Town to re-establish his trade as a surgeon and apothecary.

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