Background
He was the son of Joseph Foster Barham I and his wife Dorothea Vaughan. In 1789 Foster Barham inherited his father"s Mesopotamia estate in Jamaica, and a partnership in the West Indian merchants Barham & Plummer.
He was the son of Joseph Foster Barham I and his wife Dorothea Vaughan. In 1789 Foster Barham inherited his father"s Mesopotamia estate in Jamaica, and a partnership in the West Indian merchants Barham & Plummer.
In that year he also broke off dealings with the Atlantic slave trade. In a debate on an 1815 bill to abolish slavery, he stated that British capital upheld the Spanish slave trade, half of the Danish, and part of the Portuguese. Foster Barham sold his Stockbridge borough to Earl Grosvenor in the early 1820s.
Foster Barham married Lady Caroline Tufton, daughter of Sackville Tufton, 8th Earl of Thanet.
John Foster Barham, eldest son, Member of Parliament for Stockbridge. Certified as of unsound mind in 1837, and died 1838.
Charles Henry Barham, Member of Parliament for Appleby. William. Caroline Gertrude married Sanderson Robins.
The other daughter, Mary.
In 1793 Foster Barham was elected as Member of Parliament for Stockbridge, and was in partnership with Thomas Plummer, Member for Ilchester.