BABBAGE, CHARLES (_son of Benjamin Babbage of London, banker_). _b._ near Teignmouth, Devon 26 Dec. 1792; ed. at Enfield and Trinity and Peterhouse colleges Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; F.R.S. 14 March 1816; a founder of Royal Astronomical Society 1820, one of its secs. 1820–24, vice pres., foreign sec and member of council successively; began his calculating machine 1823, suspended its construction 1833, after spending on it about £6,000 besides £17,000 granted him by Government; Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge 1828–39 but delivered no lectures; a founder of British Association 1831, a trustee 1832–38, originated the statistical section at Cambridge meeting 1833; contested Finsbury as a radical Dec. 1832 and June 1834; chief founder of Statistical Society 15 March 1834, chairman 1835; author of _Table of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000_, 1827; _The decline of science in England_ 1830; _On the economy of manufactures_ 1832, _4 ed._ 1835; _The ninth Bridgewater treatise_ 1837, _2 ed._ 1838. _d._ 1 Dorset st. Portman sq. 18 Oct. 1871. _Babbage’s Passages from the life of a philosopher_ 1864; _Monthly notices of R. Astronom. soc. xxxii_, 101–109 (1872); _C. R. Weld’s History of royal society ii_, 369–91 (1848); _Edinburgh Review lix_, 263–327 (1834); _Journal of statistical soc. xxxiv_, 411–15 (1871); _I.L.N. lix_, 423 (1871), _portrait_; _Graphic iv_, 495 (1871), _portrait_. BABER, REV. HENRY HERVEY (_son of Thomas Baber of London, barrister_). _b._ 22 Aug. 1775; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and All Soul’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1805; sub librarian of the Bodleian 1796; assistant librarian at British Museum 1807 and keeper of Printed books 1812–37; vice principal of St. Mary’s hall Ox. 1805; C. of St. Mary the Virgin Ox. 1805; R. of Stretham with Thetford, Cambridge 1827; F.R.S. 23 May 1816; one of founders of Royal society of literature 2 June 1823 which received a charter 13 Sep. 1826; editor of _Vetus testamentum Græcum e codice MS. Alexandrino_, _4 vols._ 1816–28. _d._ Stretham rectory 28 March 1868.