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    Richard Harris Barham (6 December 1788 – 17 June 1845) was an English cleric of the Church of England, a novelist and a humorous poet. He was known generally...
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    Richard Barham Middleton (28 October 1882 – 1 December 1911) was an English poet and author. He is remembered most for his short ghost stories, in particular...
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  • Richard Middleton may refer to: Richard Middleton (Lord Chancellor) (died 1272), English theologian, philosopher and Lord Chancellor Richard Barham Middleton...
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  • Barham may refer to: Barham, New South Wales, Australia Barham, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England Barham, South Cambridgeshire, a Domesday place...
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    appeared in the 1842 poem "The Ingoldsby Legends" by the English clergyman Richard Barham, in which a Frenchman inspects a watch and cries: 'Superbe! Magnifique...
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    Civil Rights Act. The poem "The Jackdaw of Rheims" by English writer Richard Barham, published in 1837 (and in The Ingoldsby Legends of 1840), concludes...
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    HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed in 1915, she was often used as...
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    and which in 1837 inspired one of the popular Ingoldsby Legends of Richard Barham. Ögmundr Flóki owned a cloak made from the beards of kings he collected...
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    frequently appears attributed as a Mother Goose rhyme. Around 1840, Richard Barham included a spoof of the story in his Ingoldsby Legends, under the title...
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  • book of poetry by Henry Hart "The Ghost Ship", a 1912 short story by Richard Barham Middleton Ghost Ship, a 2011 science fiction novel by Sharon Lee and...
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  • Beresford Egan, W. J. Turner, Brinsley MacNamara, Edgell Rickword, Richard Barham Middleton, V. V. Rozanov, Philip Owens, Vernon Knowles, and others....
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    Miscellany. This was not an original composition, but a work initiated by Richard Barham in which several authors had been asked to collaborate in a work on...
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    rugby sevens team at the 2016 Olympics and England Rugby Union player Richard Barham Middleton, poet and short-story writer Brian Moore, football commentator...
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    Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, PC (14 October 1726 – 17 June 1813) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action...
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    Martin in his large painting of the ceremony, and was also included in Richard Barham's poem "Mr. Barney Maguire's Account of the Coronation": Then the trumpets...
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    continued writing romantic poetry. An encounter with the slightly older Richard Barham Middleton is said to have influenced him into postponing his career...
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    reference to the measurement of time, may have been popularized by Richard Barham's Ingoldsby Legends (1840); however, the phrase was already part of vernacular...
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    Örvar-Oddr). It was greatly popularised in a version published in 1837 by Richard Barham ("Thomas Ingoldsby"), as one of his Ingoldsby Legends. Sir Robert died...
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    in 1984. On 1 June 1984, he married Eve Barham (1951–1999) in Oxford. They had a daughter. Dawkins and Barham divorced. In 1992, he married actress Lalla...
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    Örvar-Oddr). It was greatly popularised in a version published in 1837 by Richard Barham ("Thomas Ingoldsby"), as one of the Ingoldsby Legends. In the early...
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  • "Afterward" (1910) by Edith Wharton "On the Brighton Road" (1912) by Richard Barham Middleton "The Upper Berth" (1885) by Francis Marion Crawford Michael...
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  • Darrell Figgis, Irish writer and politician (suicide 1925) October 28 – Richard Barham Middleton, English poet and fiction writer (died 1911) November 2 –...
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    two of Ainsworth's friends and contributors died, Laman Blanchard and Richard Barham. Later in the year, Ainsworth was able to regain control over Ainsworth's...
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  • Foster Barham I (1729–1789) was the English owner of the Mesopotamia plantation in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. Originally Joseph Foster, he took Barham as...
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    edited Vanity Fair magazine for a short period, during which he employed Richard Barham Middleton. Jepson did much to preserve Middleton's memory after his...
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  • (1476–1552, S) Leland Bardwell (1922–2016, Ir) Serie Barford (living, NZ) Richard Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788–1845, E) George Barker (1913–1991, E) Les Barker...
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  • John Barham is an English classical pianist, composer, arranger, producer and educator. He is best known for his orchestration of George Harrison albums...
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    churches in this area) associated with smuggling. Cleric and novelist Richard Barham (aka Thomas Ingoldsby) was ordained in 1813 and found a curacy at Snargate...
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  • England, nf/f) Thomas Ingoldsby (1788–1845, England, f/p), pseudonym of Richard Barham Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson (born 1955, Iceland, f) Anton Ingolič (1907–1992...
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  • Pig 03/05/1944 Émile Gaboriau 29 The Specter of Tappington 03/12/1944 Richard Barham (from The Ingoldsby Legends) 30 Strange Judgment 03/19/1944 31 Wuthering...
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