John Barkham (critic)
John Barkham may refer to: * John Barkham (antiquary) (–1642), English clergyman, antiquary and historian * John Barkham (writer) John Barkham (1908April 15, 1998) was a South African-born American syndicated writer (book reviewer) for ''Time'', ''New York Times'' Book Review, ''New York World-Telegram'', and ''New York Post'' who published several thousand book reviewers ...

John Barkham (antiquary)
John Barkham, D.D. (1572?–1642) was an English clergyman, antiquary and historian. Highly reputed in his time as an authority, he published relatively little. He supported the efforts of John Speed, and may have been a source for the ''Display of Heraldry'' of John Guillim (the book was attributed to him as a publication under Guillim's name, for some time). Barkham made a very extensive collection of coins, which he gave to William Laud; who presented them to the Bodleian library. He left also a treatise on coins in manuscript, which was never published. Life Barkham was born in the parish of St. Mary-the-Moor, Exeter, about 1572. He entered Exeter College, Oxford in 1587, and in the following year was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He became B.A, in February 1591, M.A. in 1594, and probationer fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1596. In 1603 he took the degree of B.D., and some time after he was made chaplain to Dr. John Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterb ...
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