Ham

Ham, WEST, a suburb of East London, and a parliamentary and county borough of Essex, on the north bank of the Thames, opposite Greenwich. In fifty years its population grew from 10,000 to 204,903 (1891), principally owing to the Victoria and Albert docks and the gas-works. It is a busy industrial parish, and has silk-printing, shipbuilding, distilling, and chemical manufactures. In 1885 it was made a parliamentary borough, returning two members to the House of Commons. Here is Mrs Elizabeth Fry's house, 'The Cedars.'—EAST HAM, situated in the south-west of the same county, $1\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles SW. of Barking, has a population of 9713. See Katharine Fry, History of the Parishes of East and West Ham (1888).