[2] In 1781, while travelling back from Jamaica to England, he was captured by an American privateer, and kept prisoner for several months, until he was finally released, and allowed to return home.
He spent money renovating the great houses, but the estate's attorney, John Van Heilen, complained to the older Joseph that his son was not a prudent manager of the plantations.
[6] In 1815 he withdrew from the partnership in favour of his brother and broke off dealings with the Atlantic slave trade, which had already been abolished in the British Empire eight years before.
[8] When the Baptist War broke out in western Jamaica in 1831-2, Foster Barham's estates managed to avoid serious damage.
[10] In a debate on an 1815 bill to abolish slavery, he stated that British capital upheld the Spanish slave trade, half of the Danish, and part of the Portuguese.
They had three sons and two daughters:[1] Foster Barham sold his Stockbridge borough seat to Earl Grosvenor in the early 1820s.