Thomas Babington

(1758-1837)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Babington, Thomas NRA: Babington Thomas (1758-1837) MP for Leicester DNB: Babington, Thomas (1758–1837), philanthropist and politician LBT ID: ThBabin1837 VIAF ID: 24204155 LOC ID: no97030220	B/BAP: 1758-12-18 DIED: 1837-11-21
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Educated at Rugby and St John's College, Cambridge, he was an evangelical, philanthropist, independent MP for Leicester (1800-18), and the uncle of Thomas Babington Macaulay.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Babington: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 10 July 1818 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 4 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VI: 1818