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.Boase, F. (1892). Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H, p. 1883.
He was a cornet in 1826,Dodwell, E. (1838). Alphabetical list of the officers of the Indian Army, p. 2050. promoted to lieutenant in 1828, captain in 1846,Allen's Indian mail, and register of intelligence of British & foreign India, China, & all parts of the East, p. 323. major in 1852,Murland, H. (2016). BAILLIE-KI-PALTAN: Being a History of the 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers 1759-1930, p. 427. colonel in 1863,THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, AUGUST 11, 1863. brigadier-general in 1867 and major-general on 22 April 1868.THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER 27, 1868
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.Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1958, 4th Edition by L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage: 'Babington of Creevagh', pg 42 He was a younger brother of Rev. Hume Babington.
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