Zachary Babington

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Zachary Babington (c.1690–15 October 1745) was an English barrister who served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1713 and again in 1724. He was the son of John Babington, who held the same office in 1702, and was named after his grandfather, Dr. Zachary Babington, the chancellor of Lichfield Cathedral. He was distantly related to Anthony Babington, famous for the Babington Plot, though a nearer relation had been chaplain to King Charles I.

Babington studied at University College, Oxford, entering at age 17 in 1707, and trained at the Inner Temple in 1708. He lived at Curborough Hall in Curborough and later at Whittington Old Hall in Whittington, both in Staffordshire. His daughter Mary married Theophilus Levett, the town clerk of Lichfield, and through this marriage the Levett family inherited the Babington estates at Curborough and Packington.