Sir edward sabine biography of william

Sir Edward's great-grandfather was General Joseph Sabine ? He received a commission as second lieutenant in the royal artillery on 22 Dec. He was promoted to be first lieutenant on 20 July , and on 11 Nov. On his return to England on 1 Sept.

Edward Sabine himself was born in Dublin on the 14th of October, , and obtained his first commission at the early age of fifteen years and two months in December, , after a little .

He was promoted to be second captain on 24 Jan. When eight days out she was attacked by the Yorktown, an American privateer, but, carrying some light guns and carronades, was able to maintain a running fight for twenty hours, after which an hour's close engagement compelled her to strike her colours. Sabine and his soldier-servant were of great service in working the guns.

In the winter of —14 there was an advance of American militia on Quebec, and Sabine was directed to garrison a small outpost. He served during August and September in the Niagara frontier Upper Canada campaign under Lieutenant-general Gordon Drummond, was present at the siege of Fort Erie, took part in the assault on that fort on 15 Aug. He returned home on 12 Aug.

Sabine was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in , and the same year, on the recommendation of the president and council, he was appointed astronomer to the arctic expedition in search of a north-west passage, which sailed in the Isabella under Commander afterwards Sir John Ross — [q. Sabine accompanied, in a similar capacity, a second arctic expedition in , which sailed in the Hecla under Lieutenant-commander afterwards Sir Edward Parry [q.

Born (Dublin).

He tabulated all the observations, and arranged nearly all the appendix of Parry's journal, and Parry warmly acknowledged his valuable assistance throughout the expedition. In he received the Copley medal of the Royal Society for various communications relating to his researches during the arctic expedition. Sabine was next selected to conduct a series of experiments for determining the variation in different latitudes in the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds, with a view to ascertain the true figure of the earth, a subject which had engaged his attention in the first arctic voyage.

He sailed in the Pheasant on 12 Nov. On 1 May he sailed in the Griper on the same duty, returning on 19 Dec.