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 to "Blackwood" and "John Bull"; and no English writer, probably, unless it be Thomas Hood, was ever so prolific in literature of the kind in which they both excelled.

The life of Mr. Barham has been written by his son, the Rev. R. H. D. Barham, and there are appreciative notices of him in "Bentley's Magazine" (vols. 18 and 21), "Fraser" (vol. 83), "The British Quarterly" (vol. 53), "Leisure Hour" (vol. 11), and "Temple Bar" (vol. 31).

There is a portrait of him in "Bentley's Miscellany," engraved from a drawing by Richard Lane.

[See "Gentleman's Magazine," 1845.]

SIR FRANCIS BARNHAM,

Was the son of Martin Barnham, of Hollingbourne. His mother was Judith, daughter of Sir Martin Calthorpe, of London, and he was a nephew of Benedict Barnham, of London, who re-built the front of St. Alban's Hall, Oxford. He was knighted by James I. on that monarch's accession and represented Grampound in Parliament in 1603 and 1614; and was subsequently five times elected for Maidstone in the Parliamentarian interest. In 1613 he succeeded to the estate of Boughton Monchelsea, where he died in 1646. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Robert, who was made a Baronet in 1663. He was a friend of Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Roger Twysden,