He was born at Bath in 1788, and educated at Wingfield, near Trowbridge, and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A.
He married his first cousin, Mildred Foster Barham; became curate at St Sidwells, Exeter; then rector of Shirland, Derbyshire; he subsequently resided at Clifton, Bristol, and was for twenty-three years curate in charge of St Mary le Port Church, Bristol.
He died at Clifton on 8 April 1870, and was buried in the cemetery at Weston-super-Mare.
As well as the works listed below, he wrote a large number of small poems and lectures, many of which were published in the Weston Mercury.
There remain unpublished several manuscripts, especially a valuable series of theological lectures.