Editing Edward Sabine (section)

== Introduction ==
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix    = 
| name                = Sir Edward Sabine
| honorific_suffix    = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCB|FRS|FRSE|FRAS|size=100%}}
| image               = Sir Edward Sabine, 1788–1883 (cropped).png
| image_upright       = 1.1
| caption             = Sabine in an 1850 portrait by [[Stephen Pearce]]
| order               = 30th
| office              = President of the Royal Society
| term                = {{start and end dates|1861|11|30|1871|11|30|df=y}}
| predecessor         = [[Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet|Sir Benjamin Brodie]]
| successor           = [[George Airy|Sir George Airy]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1788|10|14|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Dublin]], Kingdom of Ireland
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1883|06|26|1788|10|14|df=y}}
| death_place         = {{nowr|[[East Sheen|East Sheen, London]], England}}
| resting_place       = [[Tewin|St Peter Churchyard, Tewin]]
| spouse              = {{married|[[Elizabeth Leeves]]|1828}}
| relatives           = {{plainlist|
* [[Joseph Sabine]] (brother)
* [[Joseph Sabine (British Army officer)|Joseph Sabine]] (grandfather)}}
| education           = [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich|Royal Military Academy]]
| occupation          = [[Astronomer]], [[geophysicist]]
| blank1              = Expeditions
| data1               = {{plainlist|
* [[First Ross expedition]] (1818)
* [[First Parry expedition]] (1819)}}
| blank2              = Awards
| data2               = {{indented plainlist|
* [[Royal Society of London's Copley Medal]] (1821)
* [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] (1869)}}
| branch_label        = Branch
| branch              = {{army|United Kingdom|size=20px}}
| serviceyears_label  = Years&nbsp;of&nbsp;service
| serviceyears        = 1803–1877
| rank                = [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-general]]
| battles_label       = Wars
| battles             = {{ubl|[[Spanish Revolutionary War]]|[[War of 1812|Anglo-American War]]}}
}}

'''Sir Edward Sabine''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|eɪ|b|ɪ|n}}; 14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883) was an Irish Physicist,<ref name=":0" />  Geodesist<ref>{{Cite web |last=The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica |date=2024-10-16 |title=Geomagnetic field {{!}} Definition, Strength, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/geomagnetic-field |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>[[astronomer]], [[geophysicist]], [[ornithologist]], Polar explorer, soldier, and the 30th [[president of the Royal Society]].<ref name="obit_mnras">{{cite journal|last=Glaisher|first=J. W. L.|author-link=James Whitbread Lee Glaisher|date=1884|title=Sir Edward Sabine|journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]]|volume=44|number=4|pages=136–137|doi=10.1093/mnras/44.4.136|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="obit_obs">{{cite journal|title=Sir Edward Sabine|date=1883|journal=[[Observatory (journal)|Observatory]]|volume=6|issue=76|pages=232–233|bibcode=1883Obs.....6..232.}}</ref>

He led the effort to establish a system of magnetic observatories in various parts of British territory all over the globe. Much of his life was devoted to their direction and to analysing their observations.<ref name="obit_mnras"/><ref name="obit_obs"/> Other research focused on the birds of [[Greenland]], ocean temperatures, the [[Gulf Stream]], barometric measurement of heights, [[arc of the meridian]], glacial transport of rocks, the volcanoes of the [[Hawaiian Islands]] and various points of [[meteorology]].