Career

His 1801 lecture notes of Abernethy are in the archives at the University of Birmingham School of Medicine. They were the parents of eight children. He lived a full life devoted to his patients and family and died in Dudley and was buried in his father"s vault at Saint Edmund"s Church where there is also a memorial in the nave of the church.

Achievements

• The eldest two sons emigrated to America and fulfilled his desire to know more about the "American experiment." The seventh child, James Payton Badley, remained in England, assumed his father"s practice and became the father of John Haden Badley, the centenarian founder of Bedales School, the first coeducational school in England.