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BABINGTON, CHURCHILL (1821-1889)

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BABINGTON, See also:CHURCHILL (1821-1889) , See also:English classical See also:scholar and archaeologist, was See also:born at Roecliffe, in See also:Leicestershire, on the 11th of See also:March 1821. He was educated by his See also:father till he was seventeen, when he was placed under the tuition of See also:Charles Wycliffe See also:Goodwin, the orientalist and archaeologist. He entered St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1839, and graduated B.A. in 1843, being seventh in the first class of the classical tripos and a See also:senior optime. In 1845 he obtained the Hulsean See also:Prize for his See also:essay The See also:Influence of See also:Christianity in promoting the Abolition of See also:Slavery in See also: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 See also:vicar of Horningsea, near Cambridge, and from 1866 to his See also:death on the 12th of See also:January 1889, vicar of Cockfield in See also:Suffolk. From 1865 to 188o he held the Disney professorship of See also:archaeology at Cambridge. In his lectures, illustrated from his own collections of coins and vases, he dealt chiefly with See also:Greek and See also:Roman pottery and See also:numismatics. Dr Babington was a many-sided See also:man and wrote on a variety of subjects. His See also:early familiarity with See also:country See also:life gave him a See also:taste for natural See also:history, especially See also:botany and See also:ornithology.

He was also an authority on conchology. He was the author of the appendices on botany (in See also:

part) and ornithology in See also:Potter's History and Antiquities of Charnwood See also:Forest (1842); Mr See also:Macaulay's See also:Character of the See also:Clergy . . . considered (1849), a See also:defence of the clergy of the 17th See also:century, which received the approval of Mr See also:Gladstone, against the strictures of Macaulay. He also brought out the editio princeps of the speeches of See also:Hypereides Against See also:Demosthenes (185o), On Behalf of See also:Lycophron and Euxenippus.(1853), and his Funeral Oration (1858). It was by his edition of these speeches from the papyri discovered at See also:Thebes (See also: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 See also:book of the See also:Reformation See also:period, attributed to See also:Paleario, of which nearly all the copies had been destroyed by the See also:Inquisition. Babington's edition was a facsimile of the editio princeps published at See also:Venice in 1543, with Introduction and See also:French and English versions. He also edited the first two volumes of Higden's Polychronicon (1858) and See also:Bishop See also:Pecock's Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy (186o), undertaken at the See also:request of the See also:Master of the Rolls; See also:Introductory Lecture on Archaeology (1865); Roman Antiquities found at Rougham [1872]; See also:Catalogue of Birds of Suffolk (1884—1886); See also:Flora of Suffolk (with W. M. See also:Hind, 1888), and (1855, 1865) some See also:inscriptions found in See also:Crete by T. A. B.

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Spratt, the explorer of the See also:island. In addition to contributing to various classical and scientific See also:journals, he catalogued the classical See also:MSS. in the University Library and the Greek and English coins in the See also:Fitzwilliam museum.

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