Zachary Babington

Zachary Babington

Zachary Babington ( - 1745), High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1713 and 1724, was a barrister. [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42359 Babington, Curborough and Elmhurst, A History of the County of Stafford, M. W. Greenslade, Victoria County History, 1990] ]

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. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=wmg4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=%22zachary+babington%22&source=web&ots=OUa-W6od3b&sig=uDCdnUi6w-n46BT0rb397K7xOMg&hl=en Collections for a History of Staffordshire, William Salt Archaeological Society, 1885] ] But a nearer relation had been chaplain to King Charles I. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=gfwcAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24&dq=%22zachary+babington%22&ei=P6fpSM-7JaaktAP8552SBw#PPA23,M1 The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire Made by Sir Richard St. George, Part II, The William Salt Archaeological Society, Mitchell and Hughes, London, 1885] ]

Babington resided at Curborough Hall, Curborough, Staffordshire, and later at Whittington Old Hall, Whittington, Staffordshire. [ [http://www.wdhs.org.uk/old_hall.htm Whittington Old Hall, Whittington & District History Society] ] [ [http://www.wdhs.org.uk/zachary_babbington.htm Babington family in Whittington ,Whittington & District History Society] ] Zachary Babington's daughter Mary married Theophilus Levett, town clerk of Lichfield, Staffordshire. The Levett family inherited the Babington estates at Curborough [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=DEgJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA229&dq=%22zachary+babington%22&lr=&ei=96vpSLD_AZjOtAOx28CYBw A Survey of Staffordshire, Sampson Erdeswicke, Thomas Harwood, John Nichols and Son, Westminster, 1820] ] and Packington.

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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=wmg4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=%22john+babington%22+staffordshire&source=web&ots=OUa-R7sc5a&sig=2QVD73GVNFNmtz1H3yL994TqrIs&hl=en#PPA23,M1 Babington of Curborough, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, William Salt Archaeological Society, 1885]
* [http://www.wdhs.org.uk/zachary_babbington.htm Zachary Babington, Whittington & District History Society]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42359 Babington and Curborough Hall, British History Online]
* [http://www.archives.staffordshire.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=DServeX.ini&dsqApp=Archive2&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=15&dsqSearch=((text)='zachary%20babington') Settlement of Will of Zachary Babington]
* [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Lichfield/index.html Curborough, Staffordshire, GENUKI]


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