DALE, DAVID (1739-1806), Scottish manufacturer and philanthropist, was born at Stewarton on Jan. 6, 1739, the son of a grocer. He began business by buying up homespun linen and yarn, and then imported French and Dutch yarn. Together with Arkwright in 1785 he opened a cotton mill at New Lanark near the Falls of Clyde, but the partnership was dissolved in the same year. The enterprise, however, was so successful that Dale built a village for the workers. The mill was afterwards sold to a Man chester firm who appointed Robert Owen as manager. In Glasgow, also, Dale manufactured cotton cloth. About 177o he organized the "Old Independents," a religious community on congregational lines, of which he was chief minister. He contributed generously to the poor and to the institutions of Glasgow, and died in that city on March 17, 1806.