Richard Harris Barham

(1788-1845)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788-1845 NRA: Barham Richard Harris (1788-1845) Author DNB: Barham, Richard Harris (1788-1845), writer and Church of England clergyman LBT ID: RiBarha1845 VIAF ID: 74579338 LOC ID: n82134650	B/BAP: 1788-12-06 DIED: 1845-06-17
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Author of the “Ingoldsby Legends”; he was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and contributed to John Bull, the Globe and Traveller, the Literary Gazette, Blackwood's, and Bentley's Miscellany.
REFERENCES TO Richard Harris Barham: Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VI” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (August 1847) 461-68 Found 1: ¶ 36 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 18: Literary List Found 1: ¶ 2