 He was also an advocate for the Queanbeyan-Canberra area as the best site of a future Australian national capital, for which he is sometimes called the "Father of Canberra" (although that epithet is also applied to Sir Austin Chapman).He served a single term as Member for Murrumbidgee in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.Gale was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, in 1831 and educated at Monmouth Grammar School.