Cardale Babington

Cardale Babington
Born
Charles Cardale Babington

(1808-11-23)23 November 1808
Died22 July 1895(1895-07-22) (aged 86)
EducationSt John's College, Cambridge
Known forManual of British Botany (1843)
SpouseAnna Maria Walker
Relatives
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
FieldsBotanist and archaeologist
InstitutionsCambridge 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.