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William Babington FRS FGS (21 May 1756 – 29 April 1833) was an
Babington was physician to
"A New System of Mineralogy, in the form of a Catalogue, after the manner of Baron Born’s Systematic Catalogue of the collection of fossils of Mlle Éléonore de Raab"
(1799) London, T. Bensley. (Referring to
Babingtonite
King's College London Archive Holdings for Babington
{{DEFAULTSORT:Babington, William 1756 births 1833 deaths British mineralogists 19th-century Irish medical doctors Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Geological Society of London Presidents of the Geological Society of London 18th-century Anglo-Irish people 19th-century Anglo-Irish people
William Babington FRS FGS (21 May 1756 – 29 April 1833) was an Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...
physician
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and mineralogist
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.
Life and work
William Babington was born inPortglenone
Portglenone (from ga, Port Chluain Eoghain , meaning 'landing place of Eoghan's meadow') is a village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies 8.5 miles (14 km) west of Ballymena. It had a population of 1,174 people in t ...
, near Coleraine, Antrim, Ireland
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. He was the son of Rev. Humphrey Babington, the great-great-grandson of Brutus Babington
The Rt Rev. Brutus (or Brute) Babington (1558-1611) was an Englishman who became the Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry.
Life
He was the son of Richard Babington and Anne Starkey (formerly of Wrenbury Hall).Burke's Irish Landed Gentry by Berna ...
(sent to Ireland by James VI and I
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until ...
), and his wife Anne (née Buttle). Apprenticed to a practitioner at Londonderry, and afterwards completed his medical education at Guy's Hospital, London, but without at that time taking a medical degree. In 1777 he was made assistant surgeon to Haslar (Naval) Hospital, and held this appointment for four years. He then obtained the position of apothecary to Guy's Hospital, and also lectured on chemistry in the medical school. He resigned the post of apothecary, and, having obtained the necessary degree of MD from the University of Aberdeen
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in 1795. in 1796 he joined Dr William Saunders at Guy's Hospital
Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre.
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in London
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as his assistant and in 1802/3 (at Saunder's recommendation) replaced Saunders as head Physician.
Babington was physician to Guy's Hospital
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from 1795 to 1811. He was a founder member of the Geological Society of London
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and served as president
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from 1822 to 1824. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society
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in 1805.
He was the curator for the enormous mineral collection of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, (; 25 May 1713 – 10 March 1792), styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British nobleman who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III. He was arguabl ...
. When Bute died in 1792, Babington bought the collection. The mineral Babingtonite
Babingtonite is a calcium iron manganese inosilicate mineral with the formula Ca2( Fe, Mn)Fe Si5 O14(O H). It is unusual in that iron(III) completely replaces the aluminium so typical of silicate minerals. It is a very dark green to black translu ...
is named after him.
William and Martha Elizabeth Babington were married before 1794, and had four sons and four daughters between 1794 and 1810. Babington died on 29 April 1833 and was buried at St. Mary Aldermanbury in London. He left a son, Benjamin Guy Babington
Benjamin Guy Babington (5 March 1794 – 8 April 1866) was an English physician and epidemiologist.
Life
He was born on 5 March 1794, the son of the physician and mineralogist William Babington (1756–1833) and his wife, Martha Elizabeth (née ...
, also physician to Guy's Hospital, and a daughter, Martha, who married the physician Richard Bright.
A statue of Babington by William Behnes
William Behnes (1795 – 3 January 1864) was a British sculptor of the early 19th century.
Life
Born in London, Behnes was the son of a Hanoverian piano-maker and his English wife. His brother was Henry Behnes, also a sculptor, albeit an i ...
(1795–1864) is in St Paul's Cathedral
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in London."Memorials of St Paul's Cathedral" Sinclair, W. p. 472: London; Chapman & Hall, Ltd; 1909.
Anthony Babington
Anthony Babington (24 October 156120 September 1586) was an English gentleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England and conspiring with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, for which he was hanged, drawn and quarte ...
, the Irish
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politician was a direct descendant.
Selected publications
* "A Systematic Arrangement of Minerals, founded on the joint consideration of their chemical, physical and external characters; reduced to the form of tables." (1796) London, T. Cox."A New System of Mineralogy, in the form of a Catalogue, after the manner of Baron Born’s Systematic Catalogue of the collection of fossils of Mlle Éléonore de Raab"
(1799) London, T. Bensley. (Referring to
Ignaz von Born
Ignaz Edler von Born, also known as Ignatius von Born ( hu, Born Ignác, ro, Ignațiu von Born, cs, Ignác Born) (26 December 1742 in Alba Iulia, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Habsburg monarchy – 24 July 1791 in Vienna), was a min ...
's catalogue of the collection of Austrian collector Éléonore de Raab)
Further reading
* *References
External links
*Babingtonite
King's College London Archive Holdings for Babington
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William
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
Physicians of Guy's Hospital