Sale, George, Orientalist, born in Kent, and bred for the bar, contributed to the “Universal History” and the “General Dictionary,” but is best known as the translator of the “Korân,” with a preliminary dissertation and notes; he left a body of MSS. behind him (1690‒1736).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Saldanha Oliveira e Daun João Carlos, Duke of * Sale, Sir Robert Henry