Zachary Babington

Zachary Babington (born c. 1690 – 15 October 1745)[1] was an English barrister who served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1713 and 1724.

He was distantly related to Anthony Babington, who in 1586 was hung, drawn and quartered on Tower Hill for his participation in the Babington Plot to put Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne.

[4] Babington attended University College, Oxford, matriculating at age 17 in 1707, and was a student at the Inner Temple in 1708.

[6][7] Zachary Babington's daughter Mary married Theophilus Levett, town clerk of Lichfield, Staffordshire.

The Levett family inherited the Babington estates at Curborough[8] and Packington.