BARBOUR, ROBERT. _b._ Renfrewshire 1797; one of the merchant princes of Manchester down to about 1864 when he retired; member of the first Synod of English Presbyterian church about 1834; endowed at cost of £12,000 a chair which bears his name in Presbyterian college; purchased Bolesworth castle near Chester 1857; sheriff of Cheshire 1866. _d._ Bolesworth castle 17 Jany. 1885, will proved at Chester 14 April 1885, value of personalty upwards of £472,000. BARCLAY, ANDREW WHYTE (_son of John Barclay, captain R.N._) _b._ Dysart, Fifeshire 17 July 1817; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1839; studied at Caius coll. Cam. 1843, and St. George’s hospital, London; M.B. 1847, M.D. 1852; medical registrar at St. George’s many years; F.R.C.P. 1851, examiner, councillor and censor, Lumleian lecturer 1864, Harveian orator 1881, treasurer 1884; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. soc, pres.; assistant phys. at St. George’s 1857, phys. 1862–82; the first medical officer of health at Chelsea 1856; author of _Manual of medical diagnosis_ 1857 _3 ed._ 1870. _d._ Whitney Wood, Stevenage, Herts 28 April 1884. _British Medical Journal i_, 932 (1884). BARCLAY, ARTHUR KETT (_eld. son of Charles Barclay of Bury hill near Dorking, Surrey 1780–1855_). _b._ 20 June 1806; ed. at Harrow; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co., brewers; built an observatory at Bury hill 1848; F.R.G.S. 1840, F.R.S. 3 June 1852; paralysed 1855. (_m._ 20 Dec. 1836 Maria Octavia dau. of Ichabod Wright of Mapperley, Notts). _d._ 20 Nov. 1869. BARCLAY, CHARLES. _b._ 26 Dec. 1780; M.P. for Southwark 1815–1818, for Dundalk 1826–1830 and for west Surrey 1835–1837; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co.; pres. of Guy’s hospital; sheriff of Surrey 1842; F.R.G.S., F.S.A. _d._ Bury hill, Surrey 5 Dec. 1855. BARCLAY, HUGH _b._ Glasgow 18 Jany. 1799; member of Glasgow faculty of procurators 1820; sheriff substitute of West Perthshire 1829, and of Perthshire 1833; sheriff of Perthshire 1883 to death; author of _A digest of the law of Scotland_ 2 vols. 1852–53 _4 ed._ 1880; _Thoughts on Sabbath schools_ 1855; _The Sinaitic inscriptions_ 1866. _d._ Early bank Craigie near Perth 1 Feb. 1884.