[2] After taking this degree he returned to Penzance in Cornwall, where he was physician to the dispensary, and in general practice for several years.

Being possessed of considerable means, he abandoned the practice of medicine on his removal from Exeter, and gave himself up to good works and the pleasures of literature.

Dr. Barham published many theological works, including A Monthly Course of Forms of Prayer for Domestic Worship and (with the Rev.

His chief work, which dealt with many social questions – such as temperance, cultivation of waste lands and small farms – was entitled Philadelphia, or the Claims of Humanity (1858).

He was a contributor to the Monthly Repository from 1818, to the Transactions of the Cornish scientific societies, and to the Devonshire Association.