Life

Barham was the third son of Joseph Foster of Jamaica

Jamaica

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, who in 1750 took the name of Barham by authority of a private act of parliament, and in accordance with the will of Henry Barham. He was born in Bedford

Bedford

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, 8 October 1766, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where mariculated in 1784 but did not graduate. After his university course he travelled on the Continent

Continental Europe

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. On his return he became connected with the mercantile house of Plummer & Co., but ill-health obliged him to leave London, and to retire into the west of England, where he finally settled at Leskinnick, near Penzance

Penzance

Penzance is a town, civil parish, and port in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is approximately 75 miles west of Plymouth and 300 miles west-southwest of London...

, Cornwall

Cornwall

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. He died there 25 February 1844. He married in 1790 Mary Ann, eldest daughter of the Rev. Joshua Morton, of Blackheath, and by this lady had six children, of whom Charles

Charles Foster Barham

Charles Foster Barham, M.D. , physician—the second Christian name was rarely used—was the fourth son of Thomas Foster Barham, and was born in Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom on 9 March 1804.-Education:...

, Francis

Francis Foster Barham

Francis Foster Barham was an English religious writer, known as the 'Alist'.-Life:The fifth son of Thomas Foster Barham , by his wife Mary Anne, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Morton, he was born 31 May 1808 at Leskinnick, Penzance, Cornwall, where his parents dwelt in independence and retirement...

, Thomas

Thomas Foster Barham (physician)

Thomas Foster Barham, M.B. was an English physician and classical scholar.-Life:Barham was the eldest son of the musician and writer Thomas Foster Barham. The younger Barham was born at Hendon, in Middlesex, 10 September 1794, and sent to Queens' College, Cambridge, qualifying as M.B. in 1820...

, and William

William Foster Barham

William Foster Barham was an English poet.Barham was the third son of Thomas Barham Foster. He was born at Marazion, in Cornwall, 22 October 1802. He was educated in the grammar schools of Bodmin and Leeds, and then proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge. He won the Porson Prize in 1821 and 1822,...

are notable.

Works

• Letter from a Trinitarian to a Unitarian, Penzance, 1811.
• Musical Meditations, consisting of original compositions, vocal and instrumental, Lond. 1811, 2nd set 1815.
• Abdallah or the Arabian Martyr, a Christian drama in three acts [and in verse], Lond. 1820, 2nd edit., Penzance, 1821.
• Elijah, a sacred poem in four cantos, Lond. 1822.
• Colonel Gardiner, a Christian drama in three parts, Lond. 1823.
• Pergolesi's celebrated Stabat Mater or Calvary; with English words written for the purpose, substituted in the place of the ancient Latin verses, and the instrumental parts arranged for the organ or pianoforte, &c., 1829.
• Lander Africanus. A musical drama, Penzance, 1834.
• Reliquiæ Seriæ, or Christian Musings. By Ἐλάχιστος, Lond. 1836.