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Charles Cardale Bahington. — In Memoriam. By Peof. 

 JoBN E. B. Mayor, Cambridge University. 



Reprinted from the Camhridge Chronicle, 30th August 1895. 



Still unbroken, 

 Age to age lasts on that goodly line, 

 Whose pure lives are, more than all words spoken. 

 Earth's best witness to the life divine. 



J. C. Shairp, 



One wlio wore "the white flower of a blameless life" in 

 the face of Cambridge for three score years and nine, must 

 not pass from sight "unwept, unhonoured," even if Cam's 

 reeds are vocal no more, and he must perforce abide 

 "unsung." 



A still career, all of one piece, lias few landmarks. Cardinal 

 dates, however, may be of service. Born at Ludlow, 23rd 

 November 1808; came to the University, October 1826; B.A., 

 1830; M.A., 1833; Professor of Botany, 12th June 1861; 

 married at Bath, 3rd April 1866; Fellow of St. John's, Ist 

 November 1882; died at 5 Brookside, 22nd July 1895; 

 funeral service in the College Chapel and at Cherry Hinton, 

 26th July. 



From 1853 to 1866 I met Babington well-nigh daily during 

 term. In hall, at the "Bursar's (W. H. Bateson's) table," 

 sat, among others of the reforming " Caucus," the two 

 Babingtons, Overton, Adams, Todhunter, Bashforth, Liveing ; 

 many have gone, but all saw plans, there first broached, take 

 shape and ripen into act. We also formed, the two cousins 

 and I, a large part, by count, of the Antiquarian Society, 

 as represented in session — often the lialf, seldom less than 

 a third. As with Todhunter and Charles Henry Cooper, so 

 with Cardale Babington ; I knew him well, and yet, save 

 for the weekly "wine" of the Junior Book Club, I doubt 

 whether he ever ate or drank in my rooms or I in his. His 

 devotion to Natural History and Antiquities, to the past, 

 present, and future of Education, lay on the surface ; but 

 the higher life, which, as I now know, he had embraced 

 from a child, was "hidden." William Wiiberforce, Charles 

 Simeon, and their peers, had indeed moulded his thoughts 

 and will ; but his messmates never pierced the secret. Talka- 



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