Charles Cardale, son of Joseph and Catharine Babington, was baptised at Ludlow, Shropshire, on January
: Cambridge
He matriculated at St John's College in the Michaelmas term.
: Linnean Society
Elected as a fellow of the Linnean Society.
His Journal records that he paid his "life composition as F.L.S." on November 2.
May : Entomological Society
Babington is generally credited as being among the founding members of the Entomological Society of London - later to become the Royal Entomological Society.
He certainly appears in the early membership lists (as do Charles Darwin and Edwin Lees) marked as an original member but he does not appear to have played any part in the founding of the Society or to have attended the first meetings.
January 1 : Publication
Flora Bathoniensis [Google Books]
November 17 : Geological Society
His Journal records that he dined with Professor Sedgwick before being prop