SHERIFF BARCLAY: NARRATIVE OF HIS PUBLIC LIFE. EDINBURGH: 1884. PRICE SIXPENCE. The following notes on the life and work of Sheriff Barclay, which originally appeared in the "Perthshire Advertiser," of 1st inst., have been issued in this form to give them more general circulation. Perth, Feby. 11th, 1884. DEATH OF SHERIFF BARCLAY. From "Perthshire Advertiser," February 1st, 1884. WE regret to announce that Sheriff Barclay died this morring at his residence, Early Bank, Craigie, after a short illness, being only confined to the house since Saturday last. On that day he made several calls in the city, but since then he became seriously ill, and day by day grew weaker, till he quietly breathed his last at ten minutes to seven o'clock this morning. Hugh Barclay, the youngest of four sons of John Barclay, a merchant in Glasgow, was born in Dunlop Street in that city on the 18th January 1799. He was baptised in the Old Gorbals Kirk in Buchan Street, of which Mr James M'Lean, afterwards Dr M'Lean, was minister. Soon after the birth of Hugh, his father removed to a tenement in Glassford Street, erected by Mr Horn, an eminent builder, who opened the street in 1792; and here Sheriff Barclay spent his early years. His earliest recollection, he tells us in his " Rambling Recollections of Old Glasgow," was being led through the crowds from Jamaica Street, then the extreme limit of Glasgow, to the Cross, on the occasion of the illumination of the city in honour of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar in 1805; and he was wont to recall with pleasure the many devices that he saw on that occasion. Soon after this event he was removed to the North, where he stayed |