Edward Exton Barclay

Photograph of Barclay in hunting regalia, with signature, from Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, March 1898 edition.

Edward Exton Barclay JP (16 February 1860 – 4 March 1948) was an English gentleman and foxhunter.

Notes

Barclay was the fourth son of (Joseph Gurney Barclay). His brothers included Francis Hubert Barclay,[1] Henry Albert Barclay CVO.[2]

He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1882, MA 1885)[3]

He was a partner in Barclays Bank from 1886 to 1896.[3] In Who's Who he listed his career as "Lord of the Manor" (of Brent Pelham Hall).[4]

He was master of the Puckeridge Hounds from 1896, from 1910 jointly so with his son Maurice. His Who's Who recreations were listed as "hunting, shooting, fishing".[4]

He married Elizabeth Mary Fowler, daughter of the MP William Fowler, they had two sons (Geoffrey William Barclay MC (4 December 1891 – 28 July 1916 killed in action WW1)[5] and the aforementioned Maurice Edward Barclay CBE (1886-1962) and a daughter. The inscription chosen by the next-of-kin for Geoffrey's headstone in Belgium was: "UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY".[5] Edward Barclay's first wife died in 1927. In the same year he remarried Elizabeth Mary Fordham, widow of Harry Fordham, and daughter of the late Marlborough Pryor, of Weston Park. His second wife, the elder sister of his daughter-in-law Margaret, the wife of his son Maurice, died in 1929. Barclay himself died at Brent Pelham Hall on 4 March 1948.[6]

References

1. "Francis Hubert Barclay (BRCY888FH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. "Henry Albert Barclay (BRCY877HA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. "Barclay, Edward Exton (BRCY878EE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
4. ‘BARCLAY, Edward Exton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 20 Dec 2013
5. "Casualty Details: Barclay, Geoffrey William". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
6. The Times, Friday, Mar 05, 1948; pg. 1; Issue 51012; col A Deaths