Background
BARHAM, Georgre was born on November 22, 1836. Y. and the only surviving son of late Robert Barham of the Strand, London, and Altezeera Henrietta, daughter of late George Davey of Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.
BARHAM, Georgre was born on November 22, 1836. Y. and the only surviving son of late Robert Barham of the Strand, London, and Altezeera Henrietta, daughter of late George Davey of Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.
Studied at private schools.
Founder and Chairman of The Express Dairy Company, Ltd., The Dairy Supply Company, Ltd. Vice-president of jurors at International Agricultural Exhibition at Amsterdam, 1884. Pres, of Dairy Conference in Denmark and Sweden, 1897.
Member of Milk Standards Committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture, 1900, and author of minority report of same. President of the British Dairy Farmers’ Association, 1908. Founder and trustee of the Metropolitan Dairymen’s Benevolent Institution.
Owner of estates at Snape and Tappington Grange, Wadhurst, and at Sudbury and Hendon, Middlesex. Contested West Islington as Unionist candidate, 1895. Rc&'eations: walking and fencing. Cartulary-register 1904; Justice of the Peace Middlesex and E. Sussex, C.C. E. Sussex; High Sheriff of Middlesex, 1908-1909; Mayor of Hampstead, 1905-1906.
Spouse 1859, Margaret (d. 1906), 2nddaughter of late Jarvis Rainey of Spilsby, Lines.