Barclay, David, 1729-1809
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Name (Latin)
Barclay, David, 1729-1809
Date of birth
1729
Date of death
1809
Associated country
Great Britain
Jamaica
Occupation
Abolitionists
Bankers
Merchants
Philanthropists
Quakers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Barclay, David. An account of the emancipation of the slaves of Unity Valley Pen, in Jamaica, 1801:title page (David Barclay)
- Quakers in the World website, viewed April 14, 2015:Quakers in Action (David Barclay; born in 1729; partner with brother John in their father's linen and merchant house in Cheapside; that firm owned a number of ships that traded linen with New York, Pennsylvania, the Chesapeake area and the West Indies; good friend of Benjamin Franklin; through mother, inherited share in Freame Bank, oldest surviving Quaker bank in London; died in 1809 at Walthamstow in Essex)
- Wikipedia, viewed April 14, 2015(David Barclay of Youngbury (1729-1809); an English Quaker merchant and banker; philanthropist and abolitionist; one of the founders of the present-day Barclay's Bank; son of David Barclay (1682-1769) and Priscilla Freame, daughter of banker John Freame; bought manor of Younsbury in Hertfordshire in 1769; noted for freeing slaves he had inherited with an estate in Jamaica)