Churchill Babington

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Churchill Babington (born March 11, 1821 in Roecliffe , Leicestershire , † January 12, 1889 in Suffolk ) was a British clergyman , classical philologist , archaeologist , botanist , ornithologist and malacologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " C.Bab. ". He was part of the English noble family Babington (noble family) .

Life

Babington was tutored by his father Matthew Drake Babington and by the classical scholar Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (1817-1878). In 1839 he began his studies at St John's College of Cambridge University . In 1842 he received his bachelor's degree. In 1845 he received the Hulsean Prize for an essay on the influence of Christianity on the abolition of slavery in Europe and in 1846 he became a fellow of his college. In the same year he was ordained an Anglican minister and received his MA degree. In 1879 he received his doctorate in theology (Doctor of Divinity, DD) at Cambridge. From 1848 to 1861 he was Vicar in Horningsea near Cambridge and from 1866 until his death Vicar of Cockfield in Suffolk . At Cambridge University he was Disney Professor of Archeology from 1865 to 1879 , where he mainly dealt with Greek and Roman ceramics and numismatics. In these areas he was a collector himself. In Cockfield he took care of the restoration of his church and he is buried there.

The Editio princeps of the speeches of Hypereides against Demosthenes (1850), for Lycophron and Euxenippus (1853) and his funeral oration for the fallen of the Lamian War (1858) comes from him . They had recently been found as papyri in Thebes (Egypt) . In 1855 he also published the Benefizio della Morte di Cristo , which was ascribed to Aonio Paleario and first appeared in Venice in 1543 (almost all editions were destroyed by the Inquisition), in 1858 the Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden (* around 1280; † 12 1364) from the 14th century for the Pipe Roll Society and Repressing of over mich wyting [blaming] of the Clergie by Reginald Pecock (* around 1395, † around 1461) from 1449, also for the Roll Society. He edited inscriptions found by Thomas Spratt in Crete and cataloged ancient manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library and Greek and English coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

He was also a naturalist and was particularly concerned with botany, ornithology and malacology (he was considered an authority on the field of conchyllology ). He turned to ornithology mainly during his time in Cockfield and to malacology in the last years of his life, where he was able to put together an important malacological collection (both domestic and exotic snails and mussels). Babington was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London .

He married a daughter of Colonel John Alexander Wilson in 1869, but had no children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Mr. Macaulay's character of the clergy in the latter part of the seventeenth century. London 1849.
  • Introductory Lecture on Archeology. 1865.
  • Roman Antiquities found at Rougham. 1872.
  • Catalog of Birds of Suffolk. 1884-1886.
  • with William Marsden Hind : Flora of Suffolk. 1889.

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