biography
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Barham, Richard (Harris)
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pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby
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| (1788–1845)
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| biography:
| Humorist, born in Canterbury, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, was ordained (1813), and in 1821 received a minor canonry of St Paul's Cathedral. In 1837 he began his series of burlesque metrical tales under his pseudonym which, collected under the title of The Ingoldsby Legends (3 vols, 1840–7), became popular for their irreverent humour, irony, and esoteric learning. |
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