Barclay Architects Glasgow

[Nigel1959]

Just by chance last night i put my ancesters names on a Google search and up came different sites on the buildings there were involved with.

They are buried in the Necropolis, is there a web site where you can check their burial etc etc.??

Also it is said the family firm lasted until 1942, is there any way i can see which side of the family were doing this?

There names were Hugh and David Barclay---Hugh died 1892 and David died 1917

[drakes]

From google search:

  Architect David Barclay (1846-1917), photographed wearing masonic regalia, in 1901. In that year, he was Deacon of the Incorporation of Masons, and Master of the Lodge of Glasgow St John, No 3 Bis.

Born in Glasgow, David Barclay was a partner with his brother Hugh in the firm of H & D Barclay, architects. He was involved in the design of over forty schools, including Glasgow Academy, as well as a number of churches and public buildings. He was President of the Glasgow Institute of Architects, 1898-1900.

Barclay's most important commission was for the new building of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. The site at the corner of George Street and Montrose Street was purchased in 1900, and a competition was held to appoint architects for the prestige project. The Board of Studies judged that Barclay's design, with its detailed plans of rooms, corridors and staircases, was the best. It was the largest educational building in the country when it was completed in 1910 and it is now the Royal College Building of the University of Strathclyde.

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSS00039


and a short biography

 http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_biography.php?sub=barclay_h-d#


 good luck,
  drakes

[Nigel1959]

Thanks Drakes those are the two sites i had actually found.

Can anybody tell me what this Necropolis actually is???

[RJ_Paton]

The Necropolis is also sometimetimes referred to as the "City of the Dead" It's a large graveyard adjacent to Glasgow cathedral
Some photographs of it can be found at http://www.headstones.fsnet.co.uk/gnecrop.htm
http://www.freefoto.com/browse.jsp?id=1089-06-0
And there is a book out about the place
http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_book.php?sub=necropolis

The Glasgow Family History group are I believe working on the monumental inscriptions for the area

[Nigel1959]

AMAZING place ---thanks.