Notable South Australians/J. J. Barclay

by George E. Loyau

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J. J. Barclay

ARRIVED in the colony by the "Catherine StewartForbes," October, 1837, having been deputed by the British and Foreign Seamen's Society to form a branch of it in South Australia. He commenced business as a tailor and clothier, and occupied the first building with a brick floor in Adelaide. He was well known as a lay preacher in connection with Mr. W. Giles and the Rev. T. Q. Stow, at Glenelg, Brighton, &c. He was an Alderman of the Glenelg Corporation, and Mayor of that municipality for three years. He died May 21, 1867.