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See also:CHURCHILL See also:BABINGTON (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: 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 . See also: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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