A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 2: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons ... Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present P - Softcover

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Babington (Gervase) was born in Nottinghamshire, educated at Trinity college in Cambridge (of which he became fellow), and, July 15, 1578, incorporated master of arts at Oxford. He took his doctor's degree in divinity, and was appointed domestic chaplain to Henry earl of Pembroke president of the council in the Marches of Wales; by whose interest he became treasurer of the church of Landaff, prebendary of Wellington in the cathedral of Hereford, and, in 1591, was advanced to the bishoprick of Landaff, which he used to call in joke Aste, the Land thereof having been alienated by his predecessor Kitchin, in the days of king Henry VIII. and queen Elizabeth. In February 1594, he was translated to the see of Exeter; and, in 1597, to that of Worcester: he was likewise made one of the queen's council for the marches of Wales. To the library of his cathedral at Worcester he was a very great benefactor, not only repairing the edifice, but also bequeathing to it all his books, a gift of considerable value. He died of the jaundice, May 17, 1610 (A).

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