MEMOIR. XXV 



drunken father, had been brought to Brookside, sent for four 

 or five years to the Industrial School, on Boning's death placed 

 for a year with Dr. Barnardo, and then on a Canadian farm. 

 The made man fosters a sense of pious duty to the maker of 

 his fortunes. 



To many charities Babington's drawing-room supplied the 

 fulcrum to move the world's pity. The London City Mission, 

 Dr. Barnardo's Homes, Irish Church Missions, Church of 

 England Zenana Mission, Bishop Cabrera, Count Campello 

 (Bishop-elect of the Italian Reform), the China Mission, can 

 all tell of the breadth and warmth of his sympathy. When, 

 some ten years back, the Cambridge Seven went out to China, 

 they turned a deaf ear to all denial ; he and no other must take 

 the chair. The large room in the Guildhall was crowded to 

 the doors, and 600 undergraduates sat on the platform. What 

 he has done for Cambridge will never be known. As a friend 

 of Sir Arthur Blackwood's he turned his thoughts to our neg- 

 lected benefactors the postmen and telegraph boys. At a hint 

 from him they formed a Missionary Society among themselves, 

 and so learnt the blessing and dignity of giving. More than 

 twenty -five years ago he settled here a Cottage Orphan Home, 

 and feasted our choristers after the foundation-stone had been 

 laid by Mrs. Harold Browne. St. Barnabas', St. Philip's, and 

 other Cambridge churches owe much to his coy bounty. 



To brave hearts called to die in the mission field he was a 

 Gains, nor did he, as the blind " common-sense " of clubs and 

 smoking-rooms is now doing, grudge them the supreme crown 

 of martyrdom ; even women, he held, could not spend their 

 lives to better purpose.^^ Henry Perrott Parker (B.A. of Trinity 

 1875, M.A. 1878), lighting upon Jani AUi in Babington's house, 

 caught there the hallowed fire, laboured for some years in 

 India, with a heavy heart consented to succeed Bishop Han- 

 nington, and died in Africa 26 March 1888. He had been 

 Superintendent of the St. Barnabas' Sunday School. 



Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, Miss Stewart, Miss Hessie Newcombe 

 — martyrs whom the world of fashion mocks or condemns — and 

 the enlightened convert Mrs, Ahok, were all familiar faces 



