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Hi, I am looking for the parents of Rev. James Barclay, the curate of All Saints Church in Edmonton, London, who lived from about 1720 until his death in 1778. There is a short biography about him in the Oxford Dictionary of Natinoal Biography, but it is very brief. He had a son James b. 1747 who went to Balliol College at Oxford and died in 1771 at age 24 of consumption. The son James came to the notice of Samuel Johnson because of a critique he wrote (about a treatise on Shakespeare). James Snr. had another son the Rev. William Barclay (1741-1809) who had an academy at Southgate Chapel for a while and later achieved fame for selling Barclay's Anti-Bilious Pills. William Barclay was married to Elizabeth ? and may have been married twice. He had five daughters: Caroline Mathilda Whalley, Lucy, Agatha, Priscilla Amelia, and Wilhelmina Janet Poole. The father, the Rev. James Barclay wrote a number of sermons and a Universal Dictionary which went through many editions and was popular with the poor in Victorian England. He is not the same as James Barclay of Dalkeith who lived contemporaneously but died in 1765 (he wrote The Treatise on Education in 1743). The Barclay baronetcy passed from William Barclay to his granddaughter Agatha Whalley's husband William Wastell. But I cannot seem to fit James Senior into the Barclays in Burke's Peerage. Any clues anyone? Thank you.
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