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3 unusual facts about Francis Foster Barham


Francis Foster Barham

After a preliminary training in the grammar school of Penzance, he studied under one of his brothers near Epping Forest, and was then articled for five years (1826–31) to a solicitor at Devonport.

# An Elucidated Translation of St. John's Epistles, from the Greek and Syriac, with a devotional commentary, London 1871, octavo.

James Pierrepont Greaves

Religious writer Francis Foster Barham (1808–1871), a member of Greaves' Aesthetic Society, considered him as essentially a superior man to Coleridge, and with much higher spiritual attainments and experience.



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