Born in India on May 15th, 1863, the youngest son of Deputy Surgeon General George Barclay, of the Madras Army. Educated at Clifton College and Bristol Medical School, where he took prizes. After qualification he remained at the Bristol General Hospital, filling the posts of Assistant House Surgeon, Physician’s Assistant, Assistant Surgeon, and Surgeon (1893), and where at the time of his early death on May 9th, 1903, he was Senior Surgeon. It may be noted that he had not obtained his FRCS when he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the General Hospital in 1888, and the appointment was made conditional on his obtaining the diploma within a year. In addition to his surgical attainments, which were of no mean order, he was a scholar, widely read in English literature, particularly in the drama and poetry; and according to Canon Ainger the foundations of his literary culture were laid at Clifton College, where he showed a marked taste for good writing. Barclay was a good but slow operator; somewhat reticent and retiring, and a shade oversensitive to grievances real or imaginary. Canon Ainger writes of him: “During the thirteen years that I knew him he had suffered many grievous family bereavements and lived through years of much loneliness and anxiety; and when at last he made the most congenial and happy of marriages his friends hoped that a long future of domestic happiness lay before him, but *Deo aliter visum*.” His health failing some months before his death, he took up his residence in an open-air sanatorium and died of phthisis at Amberley, Gloucestershire, on May 9th, 1903. He was survived by his widow. Publications: Various contributions to the *Bristol Med.-Chir. Jour.* and *Brit. Med. Jour.* in 1898.