Brutus Babington

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Brutus (or Brute) Babington (died 1611) was an Englishman who became the Church of Ireland bishop of Derry.

Life

He was a native of Cheshire, and was admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1572. He graduated B.A. in 1576, and became a fellow also in 1576, with an M.A. from St John's College, Cambridge in 1579.^[1]

He was rector of Thurcaston, Leicestershire, from 1583. He was collated to the prebend of Bishopshall, in Lichfield Cathedral, 18 September 1592, and was rector of Tatenhill, Staffordshire, from 1602.^[1] On the death of George Boleyn, Babington applied for the deanery of Lichfield unsuccessfully. On 6 July 1603 he complained to Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury that the chancellor of the diocese, Zachary Babington, had obstructed his suit and dispossessed him of his divinity lectureship.

In 1610 he was appointed to the bishopric of Derry, after some opposition from supporters of Dean William Webb. He was consecrated at Drogheda, and died in 1611, probably on 10 September. Philip O'Sullivan Beare tells the story that his death was ascribed to a divine punishment for his sacrilege in attempting to burn a statue of the Virgin Mary, which, however, remained unconsumed, while the perpetrators of the outrage were either struck dead on the spot, or, like the bishop himself, died a lingering death.

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Babington, Brutus (BBNN572B)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Babington, Brute". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Check date values in: |date= (help)

v t e Bishops of Derry and of Derry and Raphoe

Derry	George Montgomery Brutus Babington John Tanner George Downham John Bramhall George Wild Robert Mossom Michael Ward Ezekiel Hopkins William King Charles Hickman John Hartstonge St George Ashe William Nicolson Henry Downes Thomas Rundle Carew Reynell George Stone William Barnard Frederick Hervey (later Earl of Bristol) William Knox Richard Ponsonby (became Bishop of Derry and Raphoe)

Derry & Raphoe	Richard Ponsonby William Higgin William Alexander George Chadwick Joseph Peacocke Robert Boyd Charles Tyndall Cuthbert Peacocke Robin Eames James Mehaffey Ken Good

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Name	Babington, Brute
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Short description	English bishop
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Date of death	1611
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