Author: Badham, Charles
Biography:
BADHAM, Charles (1780-1845: ODNB)
pseudonym An Amateur
The son of David Badham and Mary Hall, he was born at London on 17 Apr. 1780. He gained his MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and a year later began practising medicine in London while also earning his BA, MA, BM, and DM (1817) from Pembroke College, Oxford. Badham became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and then of the Royal College of Physicians in 1818. A treatise on bronchitis, which for the first time distinguished the disease from others of the lungs, was issued in 1808 and extensively revised in 1814. His verse translations of Juvenal, published in 1812 and 1814, were criticised at length in the Quarterly Review by William Gifford who, however, allowed that they were not entirely without merit. Badham enjoyed travelling to the continent from 1815, offering his medical services to other English tourists and being consulted by Ali Pasha in Albania. From 1827 he was Professor of Physic at Glasgow University. Badham married twice: Margaret Campbell (1778-1818), a cousin of Thomas Campbell, on 12 Apr. 1800, and Caroline Foote on 28 Oct. 1833. He died at London at 10 Nov. 1845. (ODNB 5 Feb. 2018; ancestry.co.uk 6 Jan. 2025; Alumni Oxonienses) SR