Social Victorians/People/Barclay

Also Known As

• Family name: Barclay
• Sometimes misspelled as Barcly or Barkly, also could be Berkeley

Demographics

• Nationality:

Residences

• Henry Ford Barclay: Woodford, Essex (1880)
• Hugh Gurney Barclay: Thorpe, Norwich (1880)

Family

A. C. Barclay Family

• Alexander Charles Barclay ( – 11 January 1893)

• Hedwig C. Barclay is A. C. Barclay's nephew ()

Another Family

• Henry Ford Barclay (9 September 1826 – 12 November 1891)
• Richenda Louisa Gurney (26 November 1827 – 12 February 1888)
  1. Edith Richenda Barclay (24 April 1849 – 1910)
  2. Hugh Gurney Barclay (1852 – 9 March 1936)
  3. Sarah Adelaide Barclay (1853–1941)
  4. Henry Ford Barclay (1860 – 23 April 1934)
  5. Sir George Head Barclay (23 March 1862 – 26 January 1921)
  6. Major Cameron Barclay (1866 – 3 August 1954)
  7. Charles Theodore Barclay (17 July 1867 – 30 March 1921)
  8. Marion Alice de Gourney Barclay (1868 – 23 August 1961)
• Hannah Edith Chapman ()

• Hugh Gurney Barclay (1852 – 9 March 1936)
• Evelyn Louisa Hogg ()

Relations

Some Barclays from newspaper reports:

• Alexander Charles Barclay
• Mr. H. A. Barclay, Croyden
• Laurence Barclay, actor and playwright or songwriter
• George Barclay, agent for Australian entertainment

Organizations

• Barclay & Co., 54 Lombard Street, London; bank?
• Barclay and Fry, Great Guilford Street; printing establishment
• Barclay & Sons, 95 Farringdon Street; chemist
• Barclay Perkins; brewery
• Arthur Barclay, Great Western Railway, Queen's Dock, Hammersmith; coal merchant
• Barclay, Bevan, & Co.; bankers
• Barclay, Curle, & Co., Ltd., Stobcross, Glasgow; shipbuilders and engineers
• Barclay and Hammond, East Temple Chambers, Whitefriars Street, London; turf accountants

Timeline

1880 April 15, Hugh Gurney Barclay and Evelyn Louisa Hogg married. (Details in timeline for April 1880.)

1887 c. April through c. November 1888?, James W. Barclay, M.P. (Forfarshire) is listed as being among the members of the Council of Welcome for the 1887 American Exhibition in London. Also, in his Four National Exhibitions in London and Their Organiser, Charles Lowe describes the Trophy Room like this: "the collection was remarkable, not only for the size and beauty of the heads and horns exhibited, but also for the fact that, with very few exceptions, the trophies had all been secured in the wildest parts of North America by the prowess of English sportsmen." One of the exhibitors he lists is Ford Barclay.

1891 July 9, Sir Henry and Lady Barkly and Miss Barclay were invited to a Garden Party at Marlborough House.

1891 November 13, Friday, the funeral for H. Ford Barclay was held and attended by a number of Barclays: the mourners were Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Barclay, Mr. Ford Barclay, Mr. Theodore Barclay, Mr. Cameron Barclay; also at the cemetery were Mr. E. Barclay, Mr. Frank Barclay, and Mr. R. Barclay.

1892 May 12, Thursday, "BARCLAY — May 12, at the Tower House, Bletchingley, [illegible], the wife of Hubert [Herbert?] F. Barclay, of a son."

1896 June 10, a contract was drawn up for the sale of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins and Co., the Anchor Brewery, Southwark by Robert Barclay, Charles Arthur Barclay, Hubert Frederick Barclay, Hedworth Trelawny Barclay, Harry David Barclay and others of other families.

1897 July 2, Friday, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Barclay attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

Mrs. H. T. Barclay

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Mrs. H. T. Barclay (at 266) was dressed as Princess Shakofsky in the Court in the Empress Catherine II of Russia procession. The Gentlewoman says that she was dresses as "Katherine of Austria, white satin, embroidered rubies and Lois XVI. knots; train of velvet trimmed fur."

Mr. H. T. Barclay

Mr. H. T. Barclay (at 267) was dressed as an Imperial Guard in the Court in the Empress Catherine II of Russia procession.

• "Lord Raincliffe, Lord Romilly, Mr. H. T. Barclay, Mr. J. Forbes, Mr. C. H. Wellesley Wilson, Captain E. B. Cook, the Hon. Gerald Ward, the Hon. Cecil Campbell (eight officers of the Imperial Guard, attending Catherine of Russia), white and gold uniform with blue facings; ribbon and Order of Catherine of Russia."
• He "and seven other gentlemen formed an Imperial guard, wearing splendid white uniforms, with blue facings and trimmed with gold. They all wore the ribbon of the Order of Catherine of Russia."

Questions and Notes

1. A Mr. H. T. Barclay is reported in 1890 as a Steward of the Lewes Autumn Meeting along with the Marquess of Abergavenny, Sir W. Throckmorton, Sir J. D. Astley, and Mr. T. J. Monk. His two-year-old bay colt horse Duck's Egg came in first in its race, the Selling Nursery Handicap of 100 sovereigns; betting was 9 to 4 against. (12, Col. 3a) H. T. Barclay had another horse at this meet: a 4-year-old Roberts came in last in the Hunters' Flat Race with Barclay riding the horse himself. (13, Col. 1a) The Sporting News has a similar story for the Lewes Summer Meeting in August 1893. Other seasons and years are similar throughout the 1890s. In 1896 he is at Lambourn "witnessing the work done by the horses under the charge of Braime."
2. A Mr. A. J. Barclay managed the Atheneum Theatre, Shepherd's Bush.
3. The Times lists both Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Barclay and Mr. and Mrs. Barclay in different parts of their article. Because other names are listed twice (see Captain Hugh Fraser, for example), I have conflated them here, though that is a guess.