Joseph Sabine

General Joseph Sabine ( – 24 October 1739) was a British army officer and politician who served in the Nine Years' War, War of the Spanish Succession and Jacobite rising of 1715. He also sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1727 to 1734, becoming governor of Gibraltar in 1730.

Early life Sabine was probably the son of Walter Sabine and grandson of Avery Sabine, alderman and mayor of Canterbury, who died in 1648. He joined the English Army at the time of the Glorious Revolution. In 1690 he married Hester Whitfield, daughter of Henry Whitfield, who, after having three sons who all died young, herself died at the age of 24. He took part in the Battle of Ramillies, being stationed with the fusiliers on the right of the English line. On 1 January 1707 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. At the Battle of Oudenarde on 11 July 1708, he led the attack on the village of Heynam. Afterwards he took part in the siege of Lille that same year. On 1 January 1710 he was appointed major-general,

Sabine died at Gibraltar on 24 October 1739. His portrait was painted by Godfrey Kneller in 1711 and engraved by Faber in 1742.