Background
Barham was the third son of Thomas Barham Foster. He was born at Marazion, in Cornwall, 22 October 1802.
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 went out Master of Arts in 1827. His death occurred in Kent on 28 January 1845. He was the author of an unpublished poem on Moskow.
1857, pp.
He won the Porson Prize in 1821 and 1822, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1824 as twenty-second senior optime, second in the first class of the classical tripos, and second chancellor"s medallist. His Greek versions of portions of Othello and Julius Cæsar are printed in a volume of Translations which have obtained the Porson Prize from 1817 to 1856, 2nd edit, Cambridge