Thomas Foster Barham (1766–1844) was an English musician and miscellaneous writer.

[1] His family's wealth was generated by sugar and slavery on the estates of western Jamaica.

[2] He was born in Bedford, 8 October 1766, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1784 but did not graduate.

On his return he became connected with the mercantile house of Plummer & Co., but ill-health obliged him to leave London, and to retire to the West of England, where he finally settled, at Leskinnick, near Penzance, Cornwall.

Joshua Morton, of Blackheath, and by this lady had six children, of whom Charles, Francis, Thomas, and William are notable.