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

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