Sir Edward Barkham, 1st Baronet, of South Acre

{{short description|17th-century English politician}}

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| name = Sir Edward Barkham, 1st Baronet, of South Acre

| birth_date = 1591

| death_date = 2 August 1667

| occupation = English politician

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Sir Edward Barkham, 1st Baronet of South Acre and of Tottenham High Cross, Middlesex[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/jennings-edmund-1626-91 History of Parliament Online - Jennings, Edmund] (1591{{spaced ndash}}2 August 1667)Will of Sir Edward Barkham, bart., of Tottenham (P.C.C. 1677, Carr quire). was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625 and 1626.P. Watson/S. Healy, 'Barkham, Sir Edward, 1st Bt. (1591-1667), of Southacre, Norf. and Tottenham, Mdx.', in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629 (Cambridge University Press 2010), [https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/barkham-sir-edward-1591-1667 History of Parliament online].

Barkham was the son of Sir Edward Barkham. He matriculated at King's College, Cambridge in spring 1611 and was awarded BA in 1613 on the visit of Prince Charles. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 13 February 1614.{{acad|id=BRKN611E|name=Barkham, Edward}} He was knighted in 1623 and then created a baronet in the Baronetage of England on 26 June 1623. In 1625 he was elected member of parliament for Boston. He was re-elected MP for Boston in 1626.{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted = 1|part = 2|page=229–239}} In 1635 he became High Sheriff of Norfolk.

Barkham married Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Berney of Reedham, Norfolk, and had issue, including Margaret Barkham, wife of Sir Edmund Jenings.{{cite web|last1=Knight|first1=Thomas Daniel|title=Edmund Jenings (1659–1727)|url=http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Jenings_Edmund_1659-1727|publisher=Encyclopedia Virginia|access-date=19 January 2023}}

Barkham died at Tottenham then in Middlesex at the age of 72. He was succeeded by his son Sir Edward Barkham, 2nd Baronet.