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Richard Babington (Archdeacon of Exeter)

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Richard Hamilton Babington (30 November 1901 – 9 June 1984) was Archdeacon of Exeter from 1958 to 1970; and Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral from 1962 to 1970.[1]

His father, also called Richard, was an Anglican priest.[2] He was educated at Malvern and Keble College, Oxford. After a Curacy at Banstead he held incumbencies in Southampton and Ipswich. He was a Canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral from 1947 to 1958.[3]

References

  1. ^ ‘BABINGTON, Ven. Richard Hamilton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 11 July 2016
  2. ^ "The Very Rev. Richard Babington" The Times (London, England), Saturday, 13 Dec 1952; pg. 8; Issue 52494
  3. ^ National Archives