William Babington (East India Company officer) explained

Major-General William Knox Babington (26 June 1806 – 31 July 1878) was an Anglo-Irish officer of the East India Company commanding Northern District, Madras from 29 November 1867 to 1 December 1868.^[1]

He was a cornet in 1826,^[2] promoted to lieutenant in 1828, captain in 1846,^[3] major in 1852,^[4] colonel in 1863,^[5] brigadier-general in 1867 and major-general on 22 April 1868.^[6]

He lived at 48 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, what is now Sussex Gardens. He was a son of Rev. Richard Babington, Rector of Lower Comber (Diocese of Derry) and his wife Mary Boyle.^[7] He was a younger brother of Rev. Hume Babington.

Notes and References

1. Boase, F. (1892). Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H, p. 1883.
2. Dodwell, E. (1838). Alphabetical list of the officers of the Indian Army, p. 2050.
3. Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence of British & foreign India, China, & all parts of the East, p. 323.
4. Murland, H. (2016). BAILLIE-KI-PALTAN: Being a History of the 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers 1759-1930, p. 427.
5. THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, AUGUST 11, 1863.
6. THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER 27, 1868
7. Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1958, 4th Edition by L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage: 'Babington of Creevagh', pg 42