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  Robert Barclay Allardice - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert Barclay Allardice (August 25, 1779 - May 8, 1854), the 6th Laird of Ury, generally known as Captain Barclay, was a famous walker of the early 19th century, known as The Celebrated Pedestrian.
Robert Barclay married, in 1776, Sarah Ann Allardice, a descendant of Robert II of Scotland and heiress to the Earldoms of Airth, Menteith and Strathearn.
Captain Barclay died in 1854, as a consequence of injuries from the kick of a horse.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Robert_Barclay_Allardice   (972 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Robert Barclay
Robert was sent to finish his education in Paris, and it appears he was at one time inclined to accept the Roman Catholic faith.
Barclay experienced to some extent the persecutions inflicted on the Quakers, and was several times thrown into prison.
One of the eleven Quaker proprietors was William Penn, and after expanding to include a larger number of proprietors, the group elected Barclay to be the governor.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Robert_Barclay   (555 words)

  
  Robert Barclay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His father Col. David Barclay of Uri had served under Gustavus Adolphus, and pursued a somewhat tortuous course through the troubles of the civil war.
Robert was sent to finish his education at the Scots College Paris, of which his uncle was Rector, and made such progress in study as to gain the admiration of his teachers, specially of his uncle, who offered to make him his heir if he would remain in France, and join the Roman Catholic Church.
The essential view which Barclay maintained was, that Christians are illuminated by an Inner Light superseding even the Scriptures as the guide of life.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Barclay   (526 words)

  
 Significant Scots - Robert Barclay
BARCLAY, ROBERT, the celebrated Apologist for the Quakers, was born on the 23rd of December, 1648, at Gordonstoun, in Moray.
Robert Barclay, the subject of the present article, received the rudiments of learning in his native country, and was afterwards sent to the Scots college at Paris, of which his uncle Robert (son to the last Barclay of Mathers,) was Rector.
Barclay, who, from his French education, was totally free of all prejudices on either side, seems to have deliberately preferred that sect which alone, of all others in his native country, professed to regard every denomination of fellow-Christians with an equal feeling of kindness.
www.electricscotland.com /history/other/barclay_robert.htm   (2671 words)

  
 Robert Heriott Barclay
Barclay's mother had died in 1801, his father having remarried, and his childhood playmates, his older and next youngest brothers, were in the King's service far from home.
Barclay's assignment to the southernmost lake was not a voluntary one.
Barclay was all too aware that his fleet was undermanned, undertrained, and outgunned, but he was out of options.
www.nps.gov /pevi/HTML/Barclay.html   (1101 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Barclay
John Barclay received his early schooling from the Jesuits, and at the age of nineteen he published a commentary on the "Thebais" of Statius.
In 1616 Barclay, at the invitation of Paul V, went to Rome, where he was welcomed by Bellarmine and pensioned by the pope.
Barclay was admired by his contemporaries for his honesty, his rare courtesy, and a conversational charm that owed something to grave irony.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02291b.htm   (559 words)

  
 §7. "Argenis". XIII. Robert Burton, John Barclay and John Owen. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This time, Barclay was anxious to avoid giving offence, and specimens of what he had written were submitted to the judgment of others.
To give an exact picture was no part of Barclay’s intention; but Sardinia, under the ambitious and encroaching Radirobanes, recalls Spain, while Mauretania, which repels Radirobanes’s attack and is governed by a queen unable to take her subjects’ money without their consent, has its analogue in England.
Barclay’s claim that his hero is meant for Louis XIII is not inconsistent, as he elsewhere attributes the father’s merits to the son.
www.bartleby.com /214/1307.html   (1533 words)

  
 The War of 1812
Barclay lost his left arm in a battle with a French convoy while serving on the HMS Diana.
Barclay was given no choice and he was ordered to fight the Americans under Oliver Hazard Perry.
Barclay was badly wounded and lost full movement in his one remaining arm.
www.galafilm.com /1812/e/people/barclay.html   (462 words)

  
 ROBERT BARCLAY - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT BARCLAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert was sent to finish his education in Paris, and it appears he was at one time inclined to accept the Roman Catholic faith.
Barclay experienced to some extent the persecutions inflicted on the new society, and was several times thrown into prison.
In later years he had much influence with James Ii., who as duke of York had given to twelve members of the society a patent of the province of East New Jersey, Barclay being made governor (I6~,2-88).
16.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BARCLAY_ROBERT.htm   (377 words)

  
 Apology Abridgements
On Baptism : Being Proposition Xii of Robert Barclay's Apology.
Barclay in Brief : a Condensation of Robert Barclay's Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers.
Barclay in Brief : An Abbreviation of Robert Barclay's Apology for the True Christian Divinity, Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers.
www.swarthmore.edu /library/friends/Barclay/Barclay_extracts_1B.htm   (1721 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
His father Col. David Barclay of Urie had served under Gustavus Adolphus, and pursued a somewhat tortuous course through the troubles of the civil war.
Robert was sent to finish his education at the Scots College Paris, of which his uncle was Rector, and made such progress in study as to gain the admiration of his teachers, specially of his uncle, who offered to make him his heir if he would remain in France, and join the Roman Catholic Church.
The essential view which Barclay maintained was that Christians are illuminated by an Inner Light superseding even the Scriptures as the guide of life.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Robert_Barclay   (520 words)

  
 "Modern English" Edition Examined
Barclay's competence in using the Bible is made to appear less than it is, not only in the broad area of interpreting a text according to its actual words but in specialized academic areas such as Greek and Hebrew translation and textual criticism.
Barclay writes, "The apostle Peter says expressly"; Freiday, perhaps unwilling to let Barclay say that the apostle Peter wrote 1 Peter, says instead that the idea "is also referred to in the New Testament" (QHP 133, DF 96).
Barclay says that a man cannot "at any time when he pleaseth or hath some sense of his misery, stir up that Light and Grace, so as to procure to himself tenderness of heart" (QHP 128, DF 93).
www.qhpress.org /texts/barclay/apology/appendix.html   (11949 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
James Walter Barclay was in the fifth generation of Barclays clearly identifiable in America, descended from the original Barclay of this strain, Robert Barclay of Rowan County, North Carolina.
Robert was the grandson or grandnephew of Robert Barclay of Urie Scotland, the Quarker Apoligist, the line of decent being through a son or brother of Robert or John Barclay who went to America, likely east Jersey.
The story of Robert Barclay of Rowan County, N. is taken from facts found in the "History of the Liberty Baptist Association" by Elder Henry Sheets, and Lawson’s "History of North Carolina," as well as the colonial records of Rowan County, N. Robert Barclay of Rowan was born 1-9-1717/18 in Dublin Ireland.
www.angelfire.com /tx/TCGS/ATexas.html   (15090 words)

  
 Barclay Press - Information Desk
Robert Barclay (for whom the business is named) addressed his Apology “to the Clergy, of every kind into whose hands these theses may come,.
Robert Barclay, after whom Barclay Press was named, was one of the few “Quaker aristocrats” of the first half-century of the Friends movement.
Robert Barclay became a convinced Friend at eighteen years of age after visiting his father in prison and coming under the influence of a fellow prisoner, John Swinton, who was a Quaker.
www.barclaypress.com /infodesk/aboutbp.html   (422 words)

  
 Barclay's Apology
Barclay's Apology for the True Christian Divinity, which presents and develops these theses, was published in 1675 during the first half-century of the Quaker movement.
Barclay's work is, however, held in reverence as a catechetical tool and doctrinal statement by many Friends, even as it is viewed as too dated and traditionally "Christian" by many others.
Barclay wrote in terms of the Christianity of his day, but his sober and seemingly traditional words were no less radical than the challenges hurled at Christendom by less restrained Friends.
www.qis.net /~daruma/barclay.html   (744 words)

  
 Barclay, Robert Lenard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Barclay (b Basham), Robert Lenard (b Leonard Edwin).
Barclay's works from his Canadian years, 1938-51, (listed in Catalogue of Canadian Composers) are tonally oriented and include works for orchestra and for strings, and duos for violin and piano and for clarinet and piano.
Barclay's atonal Variations for Orchestra (1975) were premiered by the Indianapolis SO under Oleg Kavalenko at the 1976 Contemporary Music Festival at Indiana State U, where Barclay was artist-in-residence.
thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000200   (250 words)

  
 Robert Barclay Goudie -- Campbell et al. 329 (7469): 802 Data Supplement - Longer version -- BMJ
Professor Robert ("Rab") Goudie meets all the criteria of the complete man, having mastered the whole breadth of intellectual pursuits in classics, mathematics, science, medicine, and literature, as well as the arts.
Robert Goudie was a man of great integrity with a kindly disposition, strong willed—sometimes to the point of stubbornness—and fired with ambition and a curiosity that nurtured his enormous capacity for learning.
Robert Goudie has left a rich legacy to the four children (three boys—all physicians—and his daughter, a trainee teacher) and seven grandchildren.
bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/329/7469/802-c/DC1   (1167 words)

  
 Living among Marshallese yields textured first novel - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
For Robert Barclay, the Marshall Islands in the 1970s was the perfect place to be a boy — paddling around in boats, fishing and diving, collecting old gun casings, climbing in and out of World War II bunkers, watching missiles streak across the sky at night.
Barclay observed the horrific crowding and unsanitary conditions on Ebeye, where displaced islanders were required to live, while he enjoyed the relative comfort of the U.S. enclave nearby on Kwajalein.
Barclay has completed a second book, which he calls a potboiler-type mystery, "soon to be in an airport shop near you." And he's at work on a third, more literary novel, about Americans in the Pacific.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2002/Aug/27/il/il01a.html   (1100 words)

  
 The Incredible Captain Barclay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Barclay was already an accomplished athlete, having taken on his first wager at the age of 17.
Captain Barclay is the only person ever to have walked 1mile every hour for 1,000 hours, and the feat is unlikely to be emulated.
It is not known how much time Barclay spent napping in-between each of the 1,000 individual mile walks, but deep sleep would have been impossible, leading to a state of chronic sleep deprivation.
www.carey.abelgratis.co.uk /100km/page40.htm   (745 words)

  
 Southern New York
The name Barclay is the same as the English Berkeleys, and it was not until the fifteenth century that the "de" was dropped from the name, and then by one, Alexander, son of David, who probably did not like anything that savored of French.
From family tradition he is believed to have been a son of Robert Barclay, of Dublin, born in 1718, who was a grandson of Robert Barclay, of Ury, Scotland, the famous Apologist of the Quakers, but the connection has never been established.
Sir Robert accompanied William the Conqueror to England, took part in the battle of Hastings, 1066 A. D., and was the founder of the English branch.
www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_52.htm   (4232 words)

  
 Barclay's Catechism and Confession of Faith, Review by Bill Samuel - QuakerInfo.com
While a number of early Friends wrote doctrinal works, Barclay was the one who wrote more systematic theological treatises which stand to the present day as the most definitive expressions of early Quaker belief.
Barclay is best known for his Apology for the True Christian Divinity, which has remained in print since its first publication more than three centuries ago.
Barclay, who was just 24 when this work was first published, had a little fun with it.
www.quakerinfo.com /barclay.shtml   (860 words)

  
 Burness Genealogy and Family History - Person Page 134   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She was the daughter of John Robert Burness and Emma Edith Taylor.
She married David Barclay, son of Robert Barclay, on 7 June 1734 in Benholm, Kincardineshire, Scotland.
     Robert Barclay was baptized on 9 January 1736 in Johnshaven, Benholm, Kincardineshire, Scotland.
www.burness.ca /p134.htm   (1782 words)

  
 Barclay's Apology
Robert Barclay (1648-1690) wrote his classic exposition and defense of Quakerism in Latin and published it in 1676 as Theologiæ Vere Christianæ Apologia.
Barclay bridges this gap, defending Quaker usage while clearly explaining it for the benefit of those who were accustomed to a different vocabulary.
The indexes are Barclay's, but we have changed his Latinized author names to the forms they are better known by today, and realphabetized accordingly.
www.qhpress.org /texts/barclay/apology/index.html   (1647 words)

  
 An Apology for the True Christian Divinity: Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the ...
Robert Barclay was born at Gordonstown, in the shire of Murray, in Scotland, the 23d of December, (the then tenth month,) 1648.
Robert received the rudiments of his education in his native country, and having attended the best schools there, he was sent to the Scots' College at Paris, of which his uncle Robert was rector.
And after, when his son Robert had fulfilled his ministry and finished his testimony, he also died in the Lord, and is blessed, and at rest, and ceased from his labours, and his works follow him.
www.ccel.org /ccel/barclay/quakers.ii.html   (1047 words)

  
 ROBERT BARCLAY (1648-1... - Online Information article about ROBERT BARCLAY (1648-1...
BARCLAY (1648-1690), one of the most eminent writers belonging to the Society of See also:
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Barclay experienced to some extent the persecutions inflicted on the new society, and was several times thrown into See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAI_BAR/BARCLAY_ROBERT_1648_1690_.html   (535 words)

  
 The Misty Origins of the Barclays - 1 -
Alexander Barclay, 6th of Mathers, a scholar and poet, (perhaps the first to have the name of Barclay spelt in the modern style) m Catherine, dtr of Wishart of Pitarrow, in Fife, and d ca 1497.
He was one of the jury which found Janet Douglas, widow of the 10th Lord Glamis and daughter-in-law of the 2nd Earl of Argyll, guilty of treason and witchcraft, whereupon she was burnt alive, 17 July 1537.
Robert Barclay, Banker in London, b 1758, m Ann, dtr of Isaac Ford, a lineal descendant of the ancient family of Ford of Ford Green, in Staffordshire.
www.baronage.co.uk /bphtm-02/moa-07.html   (1227 words)

  
 Civilization.ca - The making of musical instruments in Canada - Making instruments - Baroque   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert Barclay made this beautiful instrument entirely by hand, based on a drawing of a trumpet by Hanns Hainlein, who belonged to a major family of Nuremberg brass-instrument makers.
The bell is decorated with a garland that bears the inscription MACHT ROBT BARCLAI IN OTTW ("Made by Robert Barclay in Ottawa"), emulating the style of Hanns Hainlein, who signed the original trumpet MACHT HANNS HAINLEIN MDCXXXII.
Robert Barclay, an arts graduate of the University of Toronto, has been making trumpets for fifteen years.
www.warmuseum.ca /arts/opus/opus233e.html   (356 words)

  
 barclay wood
William Barclay's New Testament Commentary series entitled the "Daily Study Bible, New Testament" in seventeen volumes is now available in the Logos library system format on CD for $118.95.
The ancestry and descendants of Robert Barclay Wood amd Mary Ann (Wilbur)...
Barclay Wood, the "dean of Worcester organists," is...
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 Robert H. Barclay
In number of men and guns Barclay had the superiority, and though Perry's guns were heavier, Barclay's were of longer range.
In the battle Barclay was dangerously wounded, and finally surrendered with his whole force.
It was Barclay who gave the order to train all the available guns on the small boat in which Perry was crossing from the disabled "Lawrence" to the " Niagara." Barclay was afterward tried by a court-martial for surrendering, but was honorably acquitted.
www.famousamericans.net /roberthbarclay   (370 words)

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