Benjamin Guy Babington

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Benjamin Guy Babington c. 1866

Benjamin Guy Babington (5 March 1794 – 8 April 1866) was an English physician and epidemiologist.[1]

Life

He was born on 5 March 1794, the son of the physician and mineralogist William Babington (1756–1833)[2] and his wife, Martha Elizabeth (née Hough) Babington.

After serving as a midshipman and studying at

Madras, India.[2] Returning to England, he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital and Cambridge, receiving his doctorate in 1831.[2] He then became Assistant Physician at Guy's[2] but resigned after a disagreement in 1855. During his career, he invented several medical instruments (including the first laryngoscope) and techniques. He performed the first laryngoscopy with his glottiscope in 1829.[3] He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. According to Henry Morley, he also "distinguished himself by inquiries into the cholera epidemic in 1832".[2]

He was Secretary to The

Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society
.

Babington died on 8 April 1866.[8][2]

Publications

He wrote several papers, and translated several others, including:

Family

Babington was named after his father's best friend Benjamin Fayle, and the fact that he was born in Guy's Hospital. He married Fayle's daughter Anna Mary, who gave him four children. He also became a director of B. Fayle and Co. (Merchants) together with his sister-in-law (Charlotte Fayle) and his brother-in-law (Rev. Richard Fayle). Benjamin Guy Babington's son - Stephen Piele Babington also became a director of B.Fayle & Co.

References

  1. ^ Benjamin Guy Babington. Who Named it?
  2. ^
    OCLC 00338041
    .
  3. PMID 10644381
    .
  4. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 6 December 2010.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Presidents of the Society" (PDF). Hunterian Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  6. PMID 11369720
    .
  7. ^ "Transactions of the Pathological Society". Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  8. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/968. Retrieved 8 June 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)

External links
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