Clement Sabine

Clement Sabine was a manager of several large pastoral properties in the early days of South Australia.

History

Sabine was born in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk to John Sabine and Adelaide Isham Sabine and emigrated with his parents, two brothers and two sisters aboard the barque Derwent, arriving at Port Adelaide in March 1853
He worked for several years as Clement Sabine & Co., customs and shipping agent, then from 1857 to 1894 as Adelaide agent for pastoralist and absentee landowner Price Maurice, who had sheep runs near Coffin's Bay and was largely responsible for the rise of Angora goat farming and breeding in South Australia.
Properties managed by Sabine for Maurice included Pekina, O'Laddie. Tarcowie, Warrow, Lake Hamilton, Branfield, and "the ill-fated" Mt. Eba station.
In 1900 he left for South Africa, to investigate purchase land there post-war, concluding it was hopeless.
In 1902 he was found insolvent, and around the same time moved from "Rieti", Glenelg to Second Avenue, East Adelaide.
He died aged 72 of ptomaine poisoning at his home in Second Avenue, East Adelaide and was buried in the Brighton cemetery.

Other interests

Sabine was a

foundation member of the Chamber of Commerce, and the South Australian Pastoralists' Association of which he was hon. secretary from its foundation in 1859 and wound it up in 1865.
founder of the Bushmen's Club, whose premises at south-east corner of Whitmore Square, formerly the residence of Sir Charles Cooper, were opened in May 1870.
director of the Pastoralists' Association
director of the Adelaide, Glenelg and Suburban Railway Company, later Glenelg Railway Company, Limited
member of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society, and largely responsible for introducing a third Show in August to suit sheep farmers, in addition to those in February and October.
councillor for the New Glenely Ward of the Glenelg Council, in which area he had a villa built
director of the Glenelg Bathing Company, and its chairman
director of Elder, Smith, & Co., Limited
council member of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, SA Branch, and served with Samuel Tomkinson as hon. auditors.
an underwriter of the 1887 Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition, also involved in organising South Australian representation at Melbourne and Sydney Exhibitions

Family

John Sabine married Adelaide Isham Eppes, lived in Felixstow. She and the wife of Rev. T. Q. Stow were sisters. Their family included:

John Randolph Sabine married Catherine Hardcastle on 12 December 1854
Mary Isham Sabine married Dr. Andrew Garran MLC of Sydney on 1 December 1854
Edith Brewer Sabine died at Glenelg.
Clement Sabine married Anne Glenn "Annie" Clark on 6 March 1862. She was a daughter of brewer W. H. Clark; she died at Canowindra, New South Wales.
Eustace Powhatan Sabine married Charlotte Isabel MacGeorge He was an Adelaide businessman, she was a daughter of Robert Forsyth Macgeorge.