Babington
Britishnoun
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The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
David Babington, chief executive of Action Mental Health, says that without adequate funding in the future "the most vulnerable people in our society" would feel abandoned.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2023
“Academic preparedness is where we are seeing the decline,” said Rose Babington, senior director for state partnerships for the ACT.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2022
Gaslighting her into thinking she was abandoned by Lord Babington because of her difficulties conceiving was bad enough, but hurting her health was getting into gothic territory, I felt.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2022
While there, he lodged with the family of an apothecary, Mr Clark, whose wife had a brother, Humphrey Babington.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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