Painter and etcher, born in Edinburgh, who studied there and on the continent. He won a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship and the Guthrie Award and showed at RSA Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and elsewhere. Barclay was a member of the Edinburgh Group formed just before World War II and was represented in the exhibition covering it at City Art Centre, Edinburgh, and touring, 1983. He went on to paint in an often experimental style and lived for over 30 years in St Ives, Cornwall, where he was associated with such artists as Sven Berlin and Misomé Peile. Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery bought his picture The Pont Neuf.