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Authorised form of nameBabington; William (1756 - 1833)
Dates1756 - 1833
NationalityBritish
Place of birthPortglenone, County Antrim
Date of birth21 May 1756
Place of deathHis house, Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London
Date of death29 April 1833
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Family vault, Church of St Mary's, Aldermanbury
OccupationPhysician; Surgeon
Research fieldMineralogy
Geology
ActivityEducation:
Apprenticed in Londonderry; Guy's Hospital, London; MD (1795, King's College, Aberdeen); Hon. MD (1831, Dublin)
Career:
Assistant Surgeon, Haslar Hospital (1777); contracted typhus fever at Winchester, but survived; contracted influenza, and died (1835); one of the founders of the Geological Society
Memberships:
FCP (1827)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/05/1805
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1832-1833 No 14 pp 227-228
References:
N G Coley, 'The Animal Chemistry Club; Assistant Society to the Royal Society' in NR 1967 vol 22 pp 173-185
CodeNA3153
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1805/03Babington, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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