[2] Barnham along with his elder brother Martin (baptised 1548, died 1610) was educated at St Alban Hall, Oxford, but left apparently without a degree.
[4] On 14 October 1591 he was chosen alderman of Bread Street ward (a position he held for the rest of his life).
[6] Barnham was acquiring estates by 1575[c] and by his death he held property in London, and land in Essex, Hampshire and Kent valued at £20,100.
[2] The chief beneficiaries were his wife and daughters,[2] but Wood tells that he left £200 to St. Alban's Hall, Oxford, to rebuild "its front next the street", and that "as a testimony of the benefaction his arms were engraved over the gateway and on the plate belonging to the house".
[1] Barnham married Dorothy (died 1639), daughter of Ambrose Smith of Cheapside (the silkman to Queen Elizabeth), at St Clement Eastcheap on 28 April 1583.