Editing Charles Badham (section)

==Late life and legacy==
Badham was given a banquet at the town hall, Sydney, in August 1883 to celebrate the completion of his seventieth year, and though his health was then beginning to fail, one of the youngest of those present afterwards recorded that "Badham's speech was unforgettable". On 1 September 1883, in a letter to [[The Sydney Morning Herald]], Badham suggested for the first time that evening lectures should be established at the university. He had been ailing all the year and in December became very ill. He died on 27 February 1884, almost his last act being the writing of a farewell letter in Latin to his old friend [[Carel Gabriel Cobet|C. G. Cobet]]. He was married twice and left a widow, four sons and four daughters. A selection from his ''Speeches and Lectures'' was published at Sydney in 1890, and there is a bursary in his memory at the university. At his funeral the coffin was carried to the grave by former students who had received the bursaries for which he had worked so hard, it was they who subscribed for the monument over his grave, severely simple as he would have desired.<ref name="DAB badham"/>

Dr Badham's classical attainments were recognised by the most famous European critics, such as C. G. Cobet, [[Ludwig Preller]], [[Karl Wilhelm Dindorf|W. Dindorf]], [[Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin|F. W. Schneidewin]], [[Augustus Meineke|J. A. F. Meineke]], [[Albrecht Ritschl|A. Ritschl]] and [[Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von Tischendorf|Tischendorf]];<ref name="Britannica"/> and in Australia, [[James Martin (premier)|Sir James Martin]], [[William Forster (Australian politician)|William Forster]] and [[William John Macleay|Sir William Macleay]].<ref name="DAB badham"/>

Badham published editions of ''[[Euripides]]'', ''Helena'' and ''Iphigenia in Tauris'' (1851), ''Ion'' (1851); [[Plato]]'s ''Philebus'' (1855, 1878); ''Laches'' and ''Eutzydemus'' (1865), ''Phaedrus'' (1851), ''Symposium'' (1866) and ''De Platonis Epistolis'' (1866). He also contributed to classical periodicals such as ''Mnemosyne''. His ''Adhortatio ad Discipulos Academiae Sydniensis'' (1869) contains a number of emendations of [[Thucydides]] and other classical authors. Badham also published some critiques of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]. A collected edition of his ''Speeches and Lectures delivered in Australia'' (Sydney, 1890) contains a memoir by [[Thomas Butler (Australian politician)|Thomas Butler]].<ref name="Britannica"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Badham, Charles (1813-1884) |first=Thompson |last=Cooper |volume=2}}</ref>

His oldest daughter with his first wife, Julia Matilda ({{née}} Smith), [[Edith Badham]], was the founder of the [[SCEGGS Darlinghurst|Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School]].<ref name="Burns 1979">{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |title=Badham, Edith Annesley (1853–1920) |year=1979 |volume=7 |id2=/badham-edith-annesley-5089 |accessdate=4 March 2020}}</ref>