Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barningham, John
BARNINGHAM, JOHN (d. 1448), theologian, was educated at Oxford and Paris, in both of which places he is said to have taken his degree as master in theology. In later years he was appointed prior of the White Carmelites at Ipswich, where we are told that he died ‘a wondrous old man’ on 22 Jan. 1448. His older biographers praise his skill in disputation. Bale saw in one of the Cambridge libraries four great volumes of this author's works beautifully written; and Pits adds that his writings had been collected by one of his friends at Oxford, who, after having them carefully copied out, had them conveyed to Cambridge for preservation. Barningham's writings consisted of ‘Treatises on the Sentences,’ ‘Sacræ Conciones,’ a treatise entitled ‘De Enormitate Peccati,’ and similar theological commentaries.
[Leland Catalogue, 453; Bale Catalogue, 589; Pits, De Illustribus Angliæ Scriptoribus, 640; Tanner's Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica; St. Etienne's Bibliotheca Carmelitana, i. 791; Weever's Funerall Monuments, 750.]