George Sale (academic)
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George Samuel Sale (17 May 1831 – 25 December 1922) was a New Zealand station manager, cricketer, newspaper editor, goldminer, public administrator and university professor.
Life and career[]
Sale 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 .[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[]
Sale Street in Hokitika is named in Sale's honour.[11]
References[]
- ^ 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 http://thecommunityarchive.org.nz/node/78588/description
- ^ 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). Wikisource. . Hokitika, N.Z. pp. 8–9 – via
- 1831 births
- 1922 deaths
- New Zealand farmers
- New Zealand miners
- Canterbury cricketers
- University of Otago faculty
- New Zealand public servants
- Local political office-holders in New Zealand
- People from Rugby, Warwickshire
- People educated at Rugby School
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- New Zealand editors