Benjamin Guy Babington

Benjamin Guy Babington (5 March 1794 – 8 April 1866) was an English physician and epidemiologist.

[2] Returning to England, he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital and Cambridge, receiving his doctorate in 1831.

In 1850 he was elected the founding President of the Epidemiological Society of London and served in that capacity to within months of his death.

[1] He wrote several papers, and translated several others, including: Babington was named after his father's best friend Benjamin Fayle, and the fact that he was born in Guy's Hospital.

He married Fayle's daughter Anna Mary, who gave him four children.