Zachary Babington

Zachary Babington (born c. 1690 – 15 October 1745)[1] was an English barrister who served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1713 and 1724.[2]

Whittington Old Hall, Whittington, Staffordshire, home of Zachary Babington

He was the son of John Babington (High Sheriff in 1702), and was named for his grandfather Dr. Zachary Babington, chancellor of Lichfield Cathedral. He was distantly related to Anthony Babington, who in 1586 was hung, drawn and quartered on Tower Hill for his participation in the Babington Plot to put Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne.[3] But a nearer relation had been chaplain to King Charles I.[4]

Babington attended University College, Oxford, matriculating at age 17 in 1707, and was a student at the Inner Temple in 1708.[5]

Babington resided at Curborough Hall, Curborough, Staffordshire, and later at Whittington Old Hall, Whittington, Staffordshire.[6][7] Zachary Babington's daughter Mary married Theophilus Levett, town clerk of Lichfield, Staffordshire. The Levett family inherited the Babington estates at Curborough[8] and Packington.

References
  1. Saint-George, Sir Richard (1885). The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire: Ed. and Annotated by H. Sidney Grazebrook, Esq. Mitchell and Hughes. p. 24. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  2. Babington, Curborough and Elmhurst, A History of the County of Stafford, M. W. Greenslade, Victoria County History, 1990
  3. Collections for a History of Staffordshire, William Salt Archaeological Society, 1885
  4. The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire Made by Sir Richard St. George, Part II, The William Salt Archaeological Society, Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1885
  5. Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 1500-1714, Volume I: B.
  6. Whittington Old Hall, Whittington & District History Society
  7. Babington family in Whittington ,Whittington & District History Society Archived 2007-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Sampson Erdeswicke, Thomas Harwood, A Survey of Staffordshire, John Nichols and Son, Westminster, 1820
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