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August 10

C. N. Barham - minister, barrister, hypnotist

I would be grateful to find out more about Charles Nicholas Barham (1846-1923). According to the introduction to his short story 'Tracked: A Mystery of the Sea' in Ashley, Mike, ed. (2018). From the Depths, and Other Strange Tales of the Sea. Tales of the Weird. London: The British Library. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-7123-5236-9. he was "a minister in several congregations throughout England until 1901 when he changed professions and qualified as a barrister. But he was also well known as an amateur hypnotist, fascinated with the potential of the human mind for clairvoyance". I would particularly be interested to know if there was a connexion with either Richard Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby of happy renown), or Thomas Foster Barham, and his sons Charles, Francis, Thomas, and William. Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 22:46, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I found only the barest evidence of his having passed some legal examinations at Lincoln's-Inn in 1900. He was a second-class something-or-other in Constitutional Law and Legal History and a a third-class something-or-other in Evidence Procedure and Criminal Law.

Here's the 1891 printing of Tracked: A Mystery of the Sea, looks fun.

In fact searching for "C. N. Barham" or "Rev. C. N. Barham" yields many results. Here the Oxford Companion to Literature reprints a page from Marvel boys-own paper, with a testimonial from Rev C. N. Barnham, saying how healthy, wholesome, and superior their HIGH-CLASS fiction was, and giving away that he was in Nottingham in 1894. I suspect they may have published his stories too ... he was apparently called to Chesham that year. He was in Chesham Congregational Church (this joint) until called to the bar, and Joseph Parker (theologian) asked about how his change of career was going, in 1902, and then died. In fact from 1901-1908, Barham was editor of an annual book of bar exam questions and answers. In 1908, he wrote Barham's Student's Textbook of Roman Law. Back in 1887, he was of Whitstable-on-Sea, where he cured a rheumatic old lady with his animal magnetism. Also "member of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland". He gained membership in 1877, when he was of "Hanshaw". (Maybe Henshaw, Northumberland?) He did write a lot of anthropological essays. in 1880 he's pastor of Robert Street chapel, Grosvenor Square. But later in 1880 he moves to Whitstable, with his family. By 1890 he's in Nottingham, and reminiscing about a particularly clairvoyant servant he had in Whitstable, who sees things happening to ships at sea rather like in the story. In another version of that letter he mentions a son at City of London School. Card Zero (talk) 04:51, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks @Card Zero:. I found an obituary from the West Middlesex Gazette, Saturday 06 October 1923, which says he died 25th September 1923 at Chesham, and was the nephew of Richard Barham (Ingoldsby). DuncanHill (talk) 21:36, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lady Beauchamp, the Sailors' Rest, Le Havre.

Who was the Lady Beauchamp of the Sailors' Rest, Le Havre? Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 23:56, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Caroline Esther Waldegrave^[1] (1826–1898^[2]), later known as Lady Caroline Proctor-Beauchamp, the wife and later widow of Thomas William Brograve Beauchamp-Proctor (1815–1874) of Langley Park. She died herself on 3 July 1898 at the Sailors's Rest.^[3] The Sailors' Rest in Le Havre was located at 23 Quai Casimir-Delavigne and apparently^[4] still extant in 1918. There is another French article here, but it is behind a paywall. --Lambiam 02:43, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lambiam: Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 09:59, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]