2002•Scholia : Studies in Classical AntiquityRequires access
George Samuel sale and other stories
John Barsby
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Abstract
George Samuel Sale was a remarkable man. He was educated in England at Rugby School and al Trinity College, Cambridge before coming to New Zealand out of a sense of adventure. He was successively sheep-farmer, newspaper editor, provincial treasurer and goldfields commissioner before being appointed to the Classics Chair at the newly founded University of Otago in 1871. He had an immense influence on the development of the fledgling university until his retirement in 1907.