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

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, England, in 1831. He was educated at

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and

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(

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), where he won the Members Latin Prize. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1856, and in 1857 he began lecturing at Trinity in

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. Sale went to New Zealand in 1860 for health reasons. In May 1861 he became the first editor of ''

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'' in

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, but later that year he want to the Otago goldfields to take up mining. In January 1864 he played in the first match of

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ever played in New Zealand, top-scoring for

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with 15

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against

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. In the second first-class match, a year later, he was top-scorer in Canterbury's first innings with 16. In July 1864, Sale was appointed Treasurer of

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. He was a member of the County of Westland, representing the

Hokitika Hokitika is a town in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island, south of Greymouth, and close to the mouth of the Hokitika River. It is the seat and largest town in the Westland District. The town's estimated population is as of . ...

riding from 10 December 1868 to 16 April 1869. When the

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was established in 1870 he was one of the three foundation professors, specialising in Classics, particularly Greek and Latin. He remained in that position until he resigned at the end of 1907. He returned to England after he retired, and died in London in December 1922, aged 91. He married a Canadian, Margaret Fortune, in Kaitangata in June 1874. They had two sons and two daughters.

Honorific eponym

Sale Street in Hokitika is named in Sale's honour.

References

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