GEORGE, a learned orientalist and translator of the Koran, was born in the county of Kent 1680. Little is known regarding his private life. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury. He followed the profession of a lawyer, and was one of the founders of a society for the encouragement of learning begun in 1736. He was a valuable contributor to the Universal History of Swinton and others, and one of the authors of the General Dictionary, to which he contributed much of the translation from Bayle. The work by which Sale is now alone remembered is his English version of the Koran, translated from the original Arabic, with notes and quotations from approved commentators, and a learned preliminary discourse, London, 1734, 4to. He died in London on the 14th November 1736. Sale's oriental manuscripts were purchased after his death for the Radcliffe Library, Oxford, where they now lie.