William Foster Barham (22 October 1802 – 28 January 1845) was an English poet.
He was educated in the grammar schools of Bodmin and Leeds, and then proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge.
[1] His family's wealth came from slavery on sugar estates in western Jamaica.
in 1824 as twenty-second senior optime, second in the first class of the classical tripos, and second chancellor's medallist.
His Greek versions of portions of Othello and Julius Cæsar are printed in successive editions of Translations which have obtained the Porson Prize in the University of Cambridge from 1817 (3rd edition, Cambridge: E. Johnson, 1871).