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2 unusual facts about Barham


Brome County, Quebec

It takes its name from the name of a manor in the parish of Barham in Kent, England that was named after the broom plant.

Kerang Technical High School

Students come from Kerang and the surrounding towns of Koondrook, Quambatook, Boort, Lake Charm, Murrabit, Pyramid Hill and Macorna as well as Barham in New South Wales.


Benn Barham

In recent seasons Barham has begun an initiative in which he donates £1 for every birdie he makes to Demelza House, a children's hospice in Kent.

Charles Noel

Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough (1781–1866), aka Charles Edwardes and Lord Barham; British peer and Whig politician

Edwards Barham

Edwards Barham also still contributes to Republican candidates, including Fifth District Congressman Rodney Alexander, who first won the seat as a Democrat when Robert Barham failed to secure a general election berth.

George Barham

Barham owned two estates at Wadhurst in Sussex and 1895 he stood for the Unionist party in the 1895 general election at West Islington but was not elected.

Goffal

Specifically suburbs mainly in Bulawayo (Thorngrove nicknamed Groove, Barham Green nicknamed B.G., Forrest Vale, Queens Park, Morningside) and Harare (Arcadia, Braeside,St. Martins) began to grow and gain a significant population but in recent years many have gone in diaspora with large groups in London, Milton Keynes, Dublin, Canada in cities and towns like St.Catharines/Hamilton/Burlington/Toronto and New Zealand.

HACS

HMS Penelope, Southampton, Newcastle, Malaya, Hood*, Australia*, Nelson*, Royal Sovereign*, Barham*, Resolution*, Cairo*, Excellent (gunnery training school)*, Revenge*, Calcutta*, Carlisle*, Curacoa*, Exeter*, Adventure*, Warspite*.

Henley, Suffolk

To the west of the village is a hill that extends down to the villages of Claydon and Barham situated in the Gipping Valley.

Richard Harris Barham

In 1826 Barham first contributed to Blackwood's Magazine; and in 1837 he began to furnish to a recently-initiated magazine, Bentley's Miscellany, the series of tales (most of them metrical, some in prose) known as The Ingoldsby Legends.

Robert J. Barham

In 2002, Barham was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives, having lost to Representative Rodney Alexander, now his fellow Republican.

Barham sought to succeed U.S. Representative John Cooksey of Monroe in 2002, when Cooksey made an ill-fated run for the U.S. Senate.

As LDWF secretary, Barham succeeds Bryant Hammett, a Democrat from Ferriday, who served as a state representative from 1992 to 2006.

Republican State Representative Mike Walsworth of West Monroe was elected to succeed Barham in the October 20, 2007 jungle primary.


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