Cardale Babington

Cardale Babington
Born	Charles Cardale Babington (1808-11-23)23 November 1808
Died	22 July 1895(1895-07-22) (aged 86)
Education	St John's College, Cambridge
Known for	Manual of British Botany (1843)
Spouse	Anna Maria Walker
Relatives	Thomas Babington Macaulay (uncle) Churchill Babington (cousin)
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
Fields	Botanist and archaeologist
Institutions	Cambridge University
Author abbrev. (botany)	Bab.

Charles Cardale Babington (23 November 1808 – 22 July 1895) was an English botanist, entomologist, and archaeologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851. A contemporary of Charles Darwin, he was a student of John Stevens Henslow, active in botanical circles and succeeded Henslow as professor of botany at Cambridge. Apart from the Manual of British Botany which went into several editions, he published floras of Bath and Cambridgeshire; and a monograph on the genus Rubus. In his taxonomic approach, he was considered a splitter.