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BABINGTON, CHURCHILL (1821-1889)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 96 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
BABINGTON, CHURCHILL (1821-1889) , English classical scholar and archaeologist, was born at Roecliffe, in Leicestershire, on the 11th of March 1821. He was educated by his father till he was seventeen, when he was placed under the tuition of Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, the orientalist and archaeologist. He entered St John's College,
Cambridge
 , in 1839, and graduated B.A. in 1843, being seventh in the first class of the classical tripos and a senior optime. In 1845 he obtained the Hulsean Prize for his essay The Influence of Christianity in promoting the Abolition of Slavery in Europe. In 1846 he was elected to a fellowship and took orders. He proceeded to the degree of M.A.in 1846 and D.D. in. 1879. From 1848 to 1861 he was
vicar
  of Horningsea, near
Cambridge
 , and from 1866 to his death on the 12th of January 1889,
vicar
  of Cockfield in Suffolk. From 1865 to 188o he held the Disney professorship of archaeology at Cambridge. In his lectures, illustrated from his own collections of coins and vases, he dealt chiefly with Greek and Roman pottery and
numismatics
 .
Dr
Babington
  was a many-sided man and wrote on a variety of subjects. His early familiarity with country life gave him a
taste
  for natural history, especially botany and ornithology. He was also an authority on conchology. He was the author of the appendices on botany (in part) and ornithology in Potter's History and Antiquities of Charnwood Forest (1842); Mr Macaulay's Character of the Clergy . . . considered (1849), a defence of the clergy of the 17th century, which received the approval of Mr Gladstone, against the strictures of Macaulay. He also brought out the editio princeps of the speeches of Hypereides Against
Demosthenes
  (185o), On Behalf of Lycophron and Euxenippus.(1853), and his Funeral Oration (1858). It was by his edition of these speeches from the papyri discovered at Thebes (
Egypt
 ) in 1847 and 1856 that
Babington
 's fame as a Greek scholar was made. In 1855 he published an edition of Benefczio della Morte di Cristo, a remarkable book of the Reformation period, attributed to Paleario, of which nearly all the copies had been destroyed by the
Inquisition
 . Babington's edition was a facsimile of the editio princeps published at Venice in 1543, with Introduction and French and English versions. He also edited the first two volumes of Higden's Polychronicon (1858) and Bishop Pecock's Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy (186o), undertaken at the request of the Master of the Rolls; Introductory Lecture on Archaeology (1865); Roman Antiquities found at Rougham [1872]; Catalogue of Birds of Suffolk (18841886); Flora of Suffolk (with W. M. Hind, 1888), and (1855, 1865) some
inscriptions
  found in Crete by T. A. B. Spratt, the explorer of the
island
 . In addition to contributing to various classical and scientific journals, he catalogued the classical MSS. in the University Library and the Greek and English coins in the Fitzwilliam museum.


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