Cornelius Metcalfe Stuart Babington

1816-1862

Vol IV

Pg 88

b.1816 d.25 Jan 1862

MRCS FRCP(1857)

This biography is part of a series of historical obituaries, originally published in print. As products of their time periods, some biographies contain language which is inappropriate and offensive and present biased accounts of physicians’ lives and work that do not disclose unethical and discriminatory behaviour. As an establishment organisation, the RCP, its members, and the way they are written about, have often reflected societal power structures that favour dominant groups. We aim to redress these biases through ongoing work.

Below is the biography as originally published in 1955.

Cornelius Babington, a cousin of Benjamin Guy Babington, F.R.C.P, studied at St. George’s Hospital, where he was also a house surgeon, and qualified in 1838. His first appointment was as surgeon-accoucheur at St. George’s and St. James’s Dispensary. He lectured on midwifery at the Middlesex Hospital for a time, and built up a successful midwifery practice. Later appointments held by him were those of physician to Queen Charlotte’s Lying-In Hospital, and of assistant physician to the Hospital for Sick Children.

G H Brown

[Lancet, 1862; B.M.J., 1862]

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