Barham

Barham, Richard Harris, pseud. Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788-1845, English humorist, grad. Oxford. Ordained a minister in 1813, he became a minor canon of the Chapel Royal in 1824. In 1837 he began in Bentley's Miscellany, under his pseudonym, a series of parodies of country superstitions, medieval legends, and contemporary foibles. Barham had a lively invention, a gift of creating suspense, and an unusually discerning sense of the ludicrous. The Ingoldsby Legends were first published in book form in 1840.

Barham may refer to:

Places

England

• Barham, Cambridgeshire
• Barham, Suffolk
• Barham, KentAustralia
• Barham, New South Wales

People

• Baron Barham, any of several, most notably:
• Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham (1726–1813), Royal Navy admiral and politician
• Charles Foster Barham, physician and antiquarian
• Jaxson Barham (b. 1988), Australian footballer
• Peter Barham, physicist and molecular gastronomer
• Barham A jatt clan traced in Northern India
• Phillip Barham, saxophonist
• Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845), English novelist, humorous poet, and priest in the Church of England

Ships

• HMS Barham, four ships of the Royal Navy named after the admiral