Thomas Barclay
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Thomas Barclay may refer to:
- Thomas Barclay (scholar)Thomas Barclay (scholar)Thomas Barclay , was professor at Toulouse and Poitiers.Barclay was one of the numerous Scottish scholars who, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, studied in foreign universities, where they, in many cases, ultimately became professors. He was a native of Aberdeen, but as a young man...
- Thomas Barclay (diplomat)Thomas Barclay (diplomat)Thomas Barclay was a Philadelphia merchant, America’s first consul in France and the American diplomat who negotiated America’s first treaty with the sultan of Morocco in 1786...
(1728–1793), American merchant, consul, diplomat - Thomas Henry BarclayThomas Henry BarclayThomas Henry Barclay was an American lawyer who became one of the United Empire Loyalists in Nova Scotia and served in the colony's government....
(1753–1830), New York lawyer, American loyalist, British official - Thomas Barclay (university principal)Thomas Barclay (university principal)Thomas Barclay, D.D. , was principal of Glasgow University.Barclay was born in June 1792, at Unst, in Shetland, of which parish his father, the Rev. James Barclay, was minister. He was entered of King's College, Aberdeen, in 1808. Here he attained considerable distinction. He took the degree of M.A...
- Thomas Barclay (missionary) (1849–1935), British missionary to Formosa (Taiwan)
- Thomas Swain BarclayThomas Swain BarclayThomas Swain Barclay was a professor of political science at Stanford University. He taught five U.S. senators and countless other Stanford University students over three decades....
(1892–1993), professor of political science at Stanford University - Thomas Barclay (MP)Thomas Barclay (MP)Sir Thomas Barclay LL.D., Ph.D. was a distinguished authority on International Law, a writer on economic subjects and a British Liberal politician....
(1853–1941), British Liberal Party MP for Blackburn 1910 - Thomas Barclay (minister)Thomas Barclay (minister)Thomas Barclay was a minister in the Church of Scotland and Principal of the University of Glasgow.Barclay was born in Unst, one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands in the far north of Scotland...
(1792–1858), minister in the Church of Scotland and Principal of the University of Glasgow