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Politician.

David Barclay was only a distant relative of the Barclay bankers. Barclay Brothers and Company failed in 1847 with heavy exposure in Mauritius, apparently taken on after Emancipation.

History of Parliament states that ‘He presented a Penryn anti-slavery petition, 30 May 1828’. (Howard Spencer, ‘BARCLAY, David (1784-1861), of Gloucester Place, Portman Square, Mdx.’, in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History [online], London, 1964 -, 1820-1832, <> accessed 16 June 2021.)

Donor: presented in 1853: NG235.

C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-,
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H. Spencer, 'BARCLAY, David (1784-1861), of Gloucester Place, Portman Square, Mdx', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1820-1832,
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-,
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020,
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