| John Herbert Babington | |
| Birth Date: | 1911 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Tai Chow Foo, China |
| Death Place: | West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire |
| Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
| Branch: | Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
| Rank: | Lieutenant Commander |
| Battles: | World War II |
| Awards: | George Cross Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
| Laterwork: | Headmaster at the Royal Hospital School |
John Herbert Babington, (6 February 1911 – 25 March 1992) was a British teacher and Royal Navy officer who was awarded the George Cross for "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" in defusing bombs during World War II.[1]
Following a Luftwaffe air raid on the Royal Navy shore establishment at Chatham Dockyard (HMS Pembroke) Babington defused a bomb which had fallen that was fitted with an anti-withdrawal device. Babington was attached to in London.
Notice of Babington's George Cross appeared in the London Gazette on 27 December 1940.
He was later appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire for gallantry in 1944.
Babington became the Headmaster at the Royal Hospital School and the Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted, the first co-educational bilateral school in Hertfordshire. He was headmaster of Diss Grammar School in Norfolk, England, from 1947 to 1951.[2]