George Samuel Sale (17 May 1831 – 25 December 1922) was a New Zealand station manager, cricketer, newspaper editor, goldminer, public administrator and university professor.
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| Born | 17 May 1831 Rugby, Warwickshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 25 December 1922 (aged 91) London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Margaret Fortune (m. 1874) | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Classics | ||||||||||||||
| Institutions | Trinity College, Cambridge University of Otago | ||||||||||||||
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| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1863/64–1864/65 | Canterbury | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 15 September 2022 | |||||||||||||||
Life and career
editSale was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, in 1831.[1] He was educated at Rugby School and Cambridge University (Trinity College),[2] where he won the Members Latin Prize.[3] He was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1856, and in 1857 he began lecturing at Trinity in Classics.[4]
Sale went to New Zealand in 1860 for health reasons.[4] In May 1861 he became the first editor of The Press in Christchurch, but later that year he want to the Otago goldfields to take up mining.[4]
In January 1864 he played in the first match of first-class cricket ever played in New Zealand, top-scoring for Canterbury with 15 not out against Otago.[5] In the second first-class match, a year later, he was top-scorer in Canterbury's first innings with 16.[6]
In July 1864, Sale was appointed Treasurer of Canterbury Province.[7] He was a member of the County of Westland, representing the Hokitika riding from 10 December 1868 to 16 April 1869.[8]
When the University of Otago was established in 1870 he was one of the three foundation professors,[1] specialising in Classics, particularly Greek and Latin.[3] He remained in that position until he resigned at the end of 1907.[4] He returned to England after he retired, and died in London in December 1922, aged 91.[9]
He married a Canadian, Margaret Fortune, in Kaitangata in June 1874.[10] They had two sons and two daughters.[4]
Honorific eponym
editSale Street in Hokitika is named in Sale's honour.[11]
References
edit- ^ a b Barsby, John. "George Samuel Sale". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ "Sale, George Samuel (SL850GS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b "Archives New Zealand".
- ^ a b c d e "Obituary: Professor Sale". Evening Star: 4. 28 December 1922.
- ^ "Otago v Canterbury, 1863/64". Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
- ^ T. W. Reese, New Zealand Cricket: 1841–1914, Simpson & Williams, Christchurch, 1927, p. 155.
- ^ "Social and Domestic". Lyttelton Times: 2. 14 July 1864.
- ^ Scholefield, Guy (1950) [1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer. p. 243.
- ^ "Cricket Echoes". Star: 4. 12 December 1914.
- ^ "Marriages". Otago Daily Times: 2. 12 June 1874.
- ^ Evans, David John (1921). . Hokitika, N.Z. pp. 8–9 – via Wikisource.