Matthew Babington

Matthew Babington of Rothley Temple (17 May 1612 – September 1669) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.

Matthew was born 17 May 1612, the eldest son of Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple(1568-1645), Leicestershire and his wife Katherine (c.1585-1657), daughter of George Kendall of Smithesby.

Two years later the King obtained a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge for his younger son, Matthew, in consideration of Babington’s ‘eminent loyalty ... both to the hazard of his life and impairing his estate’.

[1] Although his brother was an officer in the New Model Army, and his father was a member of the County Committee, Babington took no known part in the Civil War.

But his brother was involved in Booth's Uprising in 1659, and he himself was committed to Lambeth House by the Council of State on a charge of levying war against the Parliament and corresponding with the enemy.