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By his second wife, Priscilla, a daughter of the banking- 

 house of Freame (afterwards Barclay), David Barclay 

 became in 1728 the father of the subject of this chapter. 

 David Barclay the second succeeded his father in the 

 family house in Cheapside. He also was a merchant and 

 chiefly engaged in the American trade, but he relinquished 

 business when the war began ; he was, however, a partner 

 in the banking-house, afterwards so closely connected 

 with his family, and part owner of Barclay and Perkins' 

 Brewery, from which he derived a large income. A man 

 of integrity and of a singularly clear and even mind, he 

 early won the esteem both of his own people and of the 

 public. With his elder friend Fothergill he worked side 

 by side in many good causes and in much mutual confi- 

 dence. Their temperaments were complementary : whilst 

 Fothergill was quick and sensitive, Barclay was deliberate, 

 a man of common-sense, and if he had not the far vision 

 of his friend, he was not less loyal to the call of con- 

 science. 



He married in 1749 Martha Hudson, the daughter of 

 John Hudson of London and Bush Hill, of a propertied 

 Quaker family. She was of delicate health, and a patient 

 of Fothergill's, who is said himself to have felt an early 

 special regard for her ; he wrote her before her marriage 

 an interesting letter of advice, which will be found in an 

 appendix (B) to this volume. She bore two daughters to 

 David Barclay, but died while they were still children. 

 As these girls grew up, they engaged the tender care of a 

 father who had not only large means but liberal and just 

 ideas. He drew up in 1763, the year of his wife's death, 

 a memorandum for the use of their governess Bridget 

 Seymour, who was a member of the national church ; it 

 is worthy of notice, as a specimen of the thought which 

 underlay what may be termed the best aristocratic 

 Quaker life of the middle of the eighteenth century. He 

 begins upon religion, and it is interesting to see what the 



Bank, pp. 27-33 J S. Lloyd, The Lloyds of Birmingham, pp. 37-39. The story 

 sometimes told of Barclay's addressing the king as " George, and thy wife 

 Charlotte," is improbable. 



