David Barclay of Cheapside


David Barclay of Cheapside was a Scottish merchant and banker.
He was the second son of Robert Barclay, the Scottish Quaker writer, and was active in the Society of Friends. An apprentice in London in 1698, he became a leading linen merchant. Involved in banking through a family connection with John Freame, father of his second wife, Barclay was not directly concerned with the firm that much later became Barclays Bank; but two of his sons were, John and David Barclay of Youngsbury, who famously manumitted his slaves.
Success in business brought Barclay a fortune of £100,000 at his death. He lived opposite St Mary-le-Bow, and was noted for his hospitality to Quaker ministers.

Family

Barclay had 14 children: six by his first marriage to Anne Taylor, and eight by his second wife Priscilla Freame, daughter of John Freame, whom he married in 1723.
By his first marriage:
By his second marriage: