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Description: | Churchill Babington (1821 Ã- 1889) was a vicar, classical scholar, naturalist and academic researcher. He was born in Leicestershire but his parish was situated near Cambridge from 1848 to 1866 and from 1865 to 1880 he held the Disney Professorship of Archaeology at Cambridge University whilst continuing to work as a vicar in Suffolk.
Babington was interested in a wide range of subjects, writing learnedly on botany, ornithology, conchology, theology, classical pottery and numismatics. In addition to this, Babington was very interested in old manuscripts, cataloguing the classical manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library and the Greek and English coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum and providing commentaries and reprints of a large number of important historical works.
His reputation as a Greek scholar was made by his editions of three volumes of speeches derived from papyri discovered at Thebes in Egypt Ã- Hypereides against Demosthenes, On Behalf of Lycophron and Euxenippus and his Funeral Oration. In his lectures, illustrated from his own collections of coins and vases, he dealt chiefly with Greek and Roman pottery and numismatics. Amongst other items, fourteen classic Ancient Greek vessels from his collection are now on display in the Fitzwilliam museum. | Subjects: | Roman period Antiquities Classical period Numismatics Greek (classical) | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8398 | Go to resource |
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