Zachary Babington

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

Zachary Babington (died 1745), High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1713 and 1724, was an English barrister.[1]

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 a plot to put Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne.[2] But a nearer relation had been chaplain to King Charles I.[3]

Babington resided at Curborough Hall, Curborough, Staffordshire, and later at Whittington Old Hall, Whittington, Staffordshire.[4][5] Zachary Babington's daughter Mary married Theophilus Levett, town clerk of Lichfield, Staffordshire. The Levett family inherited the Babington estates at Curborough[6] and Packington.

References

  1. ↑ Babington, Curborough and Elmhurst, A History of the County of Stafford, M. W. Greenslade, Victoria County History, 1990
  2. ↑ Collections for a History of Staffordshire, William Salt Archaeological Society, 1885
  3. ↑ The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire Made by Sir Richard St. George, Part II, The William Salt Archaeological Society, Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1885
  4. ↑ Whittington Old Hall, Whittington & District History Society
  5. ↑ Babington family in Whittington ,Whittington & District History Society
  6. ↑ Sampson Erdeswicke, Thomas Harwood, A Survey of Staffordshire, John Nichols and Son, Westminster, 1820

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