Babington

British  

/ ˈbæbɪŋtən /

noun

1. Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne

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Example Sentences

Their approaches, wrote the 19th-century historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, differ as “a portrait differs from the representation of an imaginary scene.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Judge Philip Babington granted the appeal.

From BBC

Passing sentence at Londonderry Crown Court, Judge Philip Babington said the jury had decided that while Pyper had caused the knife wound that led to Mr McNally's death "her intention had not been to kill him".

From BBC

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

A writer of immense range and output, capable of 6,000 words a day when in harness, Mr. Johnson modeled his career after earlier English men of letters, like Thomas Babington Macaulay and G.K.

From New York Times