BARCLAY, David (1610-86), of Urie, Kincardineshire.

Family and Education

b. 1610, 3rd s. of David Barclay of Mathers, Kincardineshire, and Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Livingston of Dunipace, Stirlingshire.Ct. Bk. of Barony of Urie ed. D.G. Barron (Edinburgh, 1892), p. xxv. educ. Aberdeen Univ. graduated 1626.Alumni of Aberdeen Univ. ed. P.J. Anderson (Aberdeen, 1900), 9; Hist. of the Barclay Family ed. C.W. Barclay, H.F. Barclay and A. Wilson-Fox (3 vols. 1924-34), iii. 2. m. 25 Dec. 1647, Catherine (d. Mar. 1663), da. of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Aberdeenshire, 3s. 2da.Ct. Bk of Urie, p. xxvi; Barclay Family, iii. 19. d. 12 Aug. 1686.Biographical Catalogue of the Lives of Friends (1888), 41.

Offices Held

Military: ?vol. Swedish army in Germany, c.1630. Capt. of ft. and dragoons, regt. of Alexander Gordon, 1635. Lt. then capt. regt. of Robert Stewart, 1638–9.Swedish Krigsarchiv, Muster Roll 1635/2, 30–1; 1638/3, 25–7; 1639/13–15. Capt. Covenanter army, c.1639;Ct. Bk of Urie, p. xxv. maj. of horse, regt. of Ld. Montgomery by Aug. 1644.Pprs. Rel. to Army of the Covenant, 1643–7 ed. C.S. Terry (2 vols. Edinburgh, 1917), i. 134; ii. 366. ‘Routmaster’ of horse, 28 Jan. 1647; col. of horse, Inverness-shire and Morayshire 4 May 1648. Gov. Strathbogie Castle, Aberdeenshire 8 June 1648.Acts Parl. Scot. vi, pt. 1, p. 673; pt. 2, pp. 56, 62, 98.

Scottish: trustee, forfeited estates, 12 Apr. 1654-May 1659.A. and O. Commr. assessment, Forfarshire and Kincardineshire 31 Dec. 1655, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.Acts Parl. Scot. vi. pt. 2, p. 840; A. and O. J.p. Kincardineshire 1656–?Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 313. Commr. security of protector, Scotland 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Civic: burgess and guildbrother, Edinburgh 8 Jan. 1647.Recs. Burgh Edinburgh, 1642–55, 107.

: Kincardineshire.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

BARCLAY, David (1610-86), of Urie, Kincardineshire.

Will

‘division’, providing for his children, dated 1680.Barclay Family, iii. 90.

Estates

Urie and other lands in Kincardine mortgaged from William Keith, Earl Marischal, under charter of 29 July 1648, confirmed 1 Sept. 1649 and registered under great seal, 7 Feb. 1650. Urie erected into barony by charter, 13 Aug. 1679, ratified 13 June 1685.Reg. Gt. Seal Scot. 1634-51, p. 817; CSP Dom. 1654, p. 283; Ct. Bk of Urie, pp. xxiv, xxvi; Acts Parl. Scot. viii. 531-3.

Oxford 1644

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