John Barkham

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,

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.

He died at Bocking on 25 March 1642, and was buried in the chancel of the church there. He married Anne, daughter of Robert Rogers, of Dartford, Kent, by whom he had one son.

In 1625 Barkham published, with a preface, the posthumous volume of Richard Crakanthorpe, Defensio Ecclesiae Anglicanae contra M. Antonii de Dominis injurias, a reply to Marc'Antonio de Dominis.