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Francis Babington
Francis Babington D.D. (also Babbington, died 1569) was an English divine and an academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
He was elected Master (head) of Balliol College, Oxford on 2 September 1559, a post he held until he resigned the following year on 27 October 1560.
Babington was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1560 to 1562.
He was also Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford from 1560 until he resigned in 1563.
Life.
Babington is said to
Cardale Babington
Charles Cardale Babington (23 November 1808 – 22 July 1895) was an English botanist and archaeologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851.
Babington was the son of Joseph Babington and Cathérine née Whitter, and a nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay. He was educated at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in 1830 and his Master of Arts in 1833. He overlapped at Cambridge with Charles Darwin, and in 1829 they argued over who should have