William Singer Barclay

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William Singer Barclay
File:Barclay, William Singer.jpg
Born 1871
Died 1947
Residence 17 Westbourne Square, W
Society Membership
membership ordinary fellow
left 1907 last listed
elected_AI 1904.05.10
societies Royal Geographical Society




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Proposed by T.A. Joyce; seconded by E.W. Brabrook 1904.04.26
1908.02.25 It was resolved to give Mr C. Hayavadana Rao warning that unless his arrears were paid he would be struck off, to suspend Messrs Barclay, Collyer and Tate and to approach the proposers of Messrs Duff and Temple.
1909.02.09 Members more than three years in arrears. It was resolved that Messrs C.L. Temple and H.R. Tate should be warned; that Mr W.S. Barclay should be put into the hands of the LAPT and that Messrs C.T. Collyer, Creighton Duff and Hayavadana Rao should be struck off.

Notes From Elsewhere

William Singer Barclay was born in 1871; educated at Bedford School and on leaving school travelled to central Uruguay to join a relative who was contracted to build a railway. This contract was cancelled and led to Barclay travelling South and Central America for twenty years. Barclay contributed to the Society's journal from 1904; became editor of a monumental commercial map of South America, published by George Philip in 1922; worked as General Secretary of the Tower Hill Improvement Trust and in later life lectured at the Society's evening meetings; became an authority on South America working as Commercial Secretary to the British Mission to South America, under Sir Maurice de Bunsen during the latter part of World War One and General Secretary to the British Empire trade exhibition in Buenos Aires, 1929-1931. Barclay was a fellow of Royal Geographical Society, 1903-1947 and received the Back Award in 1913. He died in 1947.



Publications

External Publications

The land of Magellanes, with some account of the Ona and other Indians, Unknown Binding – 1904
by William Singer Barclay (Author)

To the Falls of Iguazú Unknown Binding – 1903
by William Singer Barclay (Author)

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papers at RGS