IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 396
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Barham, Dr Charles
Date(s): 1841
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: Single sheet
Name of creator(s): Barham | Charles | 1804-1884 | physician
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Charles Barham was born at Truro on 9 March 1804. He was educated privately and then at Downs College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1821. He took his M B at Cambridge in 1827 and qualified for the higher degree of M D in 1860. In 1837 he settled in Truro, Cornwall, to practice medicine. He remained there for the rest of his life. In 1842 the Commission on the Employment of Children engaged his services. His report, with the evidence he collected, was printed in the published reports of the Commission. Barham died on 20 October 1884.
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A letter to Dr. Charles Barham from F. Thrale, on behalf of Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby, the Home Secretary appointing him sub-commissioner to the Commission on the Employment of Children.
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Date(s) of descriptions: 1999-09-07 Simon McKeon, 2000-03-09 Joseph Gelfer