Thomas Foster Barham (1766–1844), was a musician and miscellaneous writer.
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 St. John's College, Cambridge, where mariculated in 1784 but did not graduate.[1] After his university course he travelled on the Continent. On his return he became connected with the mercantile house of Plummer & Co., but ill-health obliged him to leave London, and to retire into the west of England, where he finally settled at Leskinnick, near Penzance, Cornwall. He died there 25 February 1844. He married in 1790 Mary Ann, eldest daughter of the Rev. Joshua Morton, of Blackheath, and by this lady had six children, of whom Charles, Francis, Thomas, and William are notable.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Barham, Thomas Foster (1766-1844)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.