12 Facts About Churchill Babington

Churchill Babington was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist.

Churchill Babington was born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire, the only son of Matthew Drake Babington.

Churchill Babington was first educated by his father, and then studied under Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, the orientalist and archaeologist.

Churchill Babington collected on field trips along with many others including Edward Byles Cowell.

Churchill Babington was among the few to record the endangered eskimo curlew in England.

Churchill Babington was the author of the appendices on botany and ornithology in Potter's History and Antiquities of Charnwood Forest.

Churchill Babington's family was connected with that of the Macaulays and he wrote Mr Macaulay's Character of the Clergy, a defence of the clergy of the 17th Century, which received the approval of Gladstone.

Churchill Babington brought out the editio princeps of the speeches of Hypereides Against Demosthenes, On Behalf of Lycophron and Euxenippus and his Funeral Oration.

Churchill Babington's edition was a facsimile of the editio princeps published at Venice in 1543, with an Introduction and French and English versions.

Churchill Babington edited the first two volumes of Higden's Polychronicon and Bishop Pecock's Represser of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy ; Introductory Lecture on Archaeology ; Roman Antiquities found at Rougham ; Catalogue of Birds of Suffolk ; Flora of Suffolk, etc.

Churchill Babington catalogued the classical manuscripts in the University Library and the Greek and English coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Churchill Babington died of rheumatic fever and was survived only by his widow, daughter of Colonel John Alexander Wilson.