page_title: Philip Babington (died 1690)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Philip Babington (died 1690) / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: The church at Bolam Taken on a fine September afternoon.
context_page_description: Philip Babington was an English military officer, who served in the armies of the Commonwealth of England, the Dutch Republic and the England. He accompanied William III to England in the 1688 Glorious Revolution and served as Member of Parliament and Governor for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1689–1690.
  In April 1690, he was appointed Colonel of Babingtons Regiment, later the 6th Foot, which was sent to Ireland. He fought at The Boyne in July and died of disease before the end of 1690.
context_section_description: Philip Babington was born in 1632, eldest of seven surviving children of William Babington (died 1648) and Elizabeth Helmes. His family had long-standing links with Northumberland ; during the 1642–1646 First English Civil War, his father was county commissioner under the Militia Ordinance and a Colonel in the New Model Army.    
  Philip attended Christ Church, Oxford in 1650 and later studied law at Gray's Inn, London; in 1662, he married Katherine, widow of George Fenwick, MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed and daughter of Arthur Hesilrige, one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest sparked the Civil Wars. 
  He and Katherine had a son, also called Philip, before her death in 1670; in 1679, he married Anne Webb, daughter of William Webb, headmaster of Berwick School. After his death in Ireland, she received a small pension from the government; in 1707, she was still being paid an annual pension of £100.
caption: Bolam Parish Church; Babington's first wife Katherine was excommunicated for having the priest pulled from his pulpit.
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