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Thomas Ingoldsby was the pen-name of the Rev. Richard Harris Barham. Barham was an English cleric of the Church of England, novelist, and humorous poet. His Life and Letters and a miscellany of his poems, The Ingoldsby Lyrics, were posthumously edited by his son Richard Harris Dalton Barham.