George Samuel Sale
Born(1831-05-17)17 May 1831
Rugby, Warwickshire, England
Died25 December 1922(1922-12-25) (aged 91)
London, England
Spouse
Margaret Fortune
​
(m. 1874)​
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
InstitutionsTrinity College, Cambridge
University of Otago
Cricket information
BattingRight-handed
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1863/64–1864/65Canterbury
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 2
Runs scored 38
Batting average 12.66
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 16
Catches/stumpings 2/–
Source: CricketArchive, 15 September 2022

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 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

Sale Street in Hokitika is named in Sale's honour.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 Barsby, John. "George Samuel Sale". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Sale, George Samuel (SL850GS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. 1 2 "Archives New Zealand".
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Obituary: Professor Sale". Evening Star: 4. 28 December 1922.
  5. ↑ "Otago v Canterbury, 1863/64". Cricinfo. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  6. ↑ T. W. Reese, New Zealand Cricket: 1841–1914, Simpson & Williams, Christchurch, 1927, p. 155.
  7. ↑ "Social and Domestic". Lyttelton Times: 2. 14 July 1864.
  8. ↑ Scholefield, Guy (1950) [1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer. p. 243.
  9. ↑ "Cricket Echoes". Star: 4. 12 December 1914.
  10. ↑ "Marriages". Otago Daily Times: 2. 12 June 1874.
  11. ↑ Evans, David John (1921). "The Birth of a Borough" . Hokitika, N.Z. pp. 8–9 – via Wikisource.
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