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built up a big business, and tbe Barclay house in Cheapside received 

 visits from three King Georges. From thence spread also that 

 wonderful network of business families which is summed up in the 

 names of Barclay, Hoare, Bevan, and Gurney. 



Mr Hudson Gurney' (1775 — 1864), himself son of Agatha Barclay, 

 a granddaughter of David Barclay of Cheapside, and husband of another 

 Barclay, remarks in discussing the Barclay pedigree": "Query : Taking 

 the moral Pedigree from 913 to 1913 in all human probability may it 

 not stand : 



(1) Powerful and highly- (4) Norwich Tradesmanship. 



connected Nobility. (5) Sectarian Opulence. 



(2) Provincial Squirealty. (6) Underbred Assumption. 



(3) Utter Beggary. (7) Bankruptcy and Dispersion. 

 Ending this queer and chequer'd history sans land, sans goods, sans 

 brains, sans everything." 



When we recollect that Francis Galton's grandmother was a great- 

 granddaughter of the Apologist ; that she was the woman — herself of 

 marked character as her portraits show — who handed down Barclay 

 persistency and Barclay physique to Francis Galton — then I think we 

 need not fear that the Quaker Barclays have ended unworthily. The 

 Cameron-Barclay strain was a splendid strain, physically and mentally. 

 Francis Galton's great-uncle. Captain Barclay (see Plate XXIV), the 

 last Barclay of Ury (see Plate XXIII), was a famous pedestrian, 

 an athlete who when over 70 could lift a man of 12 stone on the palm 

 of his hand from the floor to the table, and who walked 1000 miles 

 in 1000 hours, one mile to each hour. His father (see Plate XXIV) 

 was also a man of strength, who took up and threw a trespassing 

 donkey over a hedge as he would have done a football. The traditions 

 of strength go back to Ewen Cameron and his generation. Francis 

 Galton himself says that from " the Barclay blood he received a rather 

 unusual power of enduring physical fatigue without harmful results." 

 {Memories, p. 11.) 



Distant as may seem the connection between Francis Galton and 

 the gi-eat names of mediaeval history (see Pedigree Plate B), the 



' Second cousin of Tertius Galton : see Pedigree Plate C. 



^ Hudson Gurney's remarks are taken from an MS. account of the Barclay family. 

 He was dealing with a 1000 years from the last Carlovingian Emperor and looking into 

 a future half-a-century ahead. 



