David Barclay may refer to:
- Col. David Barclay (Quaker) (1610–1686), 1st Laird of Urie and father of Robert Barclay, the Quaker apologist
- David Barclay of Youngsbury (1729–1809), English Quaker merchant and banker, grandson of Robert Barclay
- David Barclay (MP) (1784–1861), English Whig politician, Member of Parliament (MP) 1826–30, 1835–37 and 1841–47
- Sir David and Frederick Barclay (born 1934), British businessmen
- David Barclay, a puppeteer who is also known as David Alan Barclay.
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“I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once more only the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,—those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)