BABINGTON, CHURCHILL (1821-1889), English clas sical scholar and archaeologist, was born at Roecliffe, in Leicester shire, on March 11, 1821, and studied at St. John's college, Cambridge. He died at Cockfield, Suffolk, of which place he was vicar, on Jan. 12, 1889. From 1865 to 188o he held the Disney professorship of archaeology at Cambridge. In his lectures, illus trated from his own collections of coins and vases, he dealt chiefly with Greek and Roman pottery and numismatics. He brought out the editio princeps of the speeches of Hypereides Against Demos thenes (185o), On Behalf of Lycophron and Euxenippus and his Funeral Oration (1858). It was by his edition of these speeches from the papyri discovered at Thebes (Egypt) in and 1856 that Babington's fame as a Greek scholar was made. In addition to contributing to various classical and scientific journals, he catalogued the classical mss. in the university library and the Greek and English coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, for which he did great service.