Barham was the third son of Joseph Foster of Jamaica, 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, 8 October 1766, and educated at Saint John"s College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1784 but did not graduate.
Street John"s College.
After his university course he travelled on the Continent. On his return he became connected with the mercantile house of Plummer & Company, but ill-health obliged him to leave London, and to retire to the West of England, where he finally settled, at Leskinnick, near Penzance, Cornwall. He died there on 25 February 1844.
