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Barclay Records Artists
Barclay may refer to: People * Barclay (surname) * Clan Barclay Places * Barclay, Kansas * Barclay, Maryland, a town in Queen Anne's County * Barclay, Baltimore, Maryland, a neighborhood * Barclay, Nevada, a town in Lincoln County * Barclay, Texas * Barclays Center, a sports venue in Brooklyn, New York * Barclay Theatre, a performing arts center in Irvine, California Business * Barclay (record label), a French record label * Barclay (cigarette), an American brand of cigarettes * Barclays, a United Kingdom-based bank * Barclay Manufacturing Company (1922–1971), a toy manufacturer * Barclay Mowlem, former Australian construction company * Andrew Barclay Sons & Company, a Scottish locomotive builder * Jack Barclay Bentley, a Bentley dealership * Barclay, a brand of liquor owned by Barton Brands Education * The Barclay School, a secondary school in Stevenage, UK * Barclay College, a college in Haviland, Kansas Other uses * Operation Barclay, a World War II operatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclay (surname)
''Barclay'' () is a Scottish people, Scottish surname (see Clan Barclay). Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), Scottish poet * Alexander Charles Barclay (1823–1893), English brewer and politician * Alfred Richard Barclay (1859–1912), New Zealand politician * Andrew Barclay (other), several people * Anthony Barclay, British actor * Arthur Barclay (1854–1938), Liberian politician ** Arthur Barclay (other), several people * Bruce Barclay (1922–1979), New Zealand politician * Byrna Barclay (1940–2023), Canadian writer and editor * Charles Frederick Barclay (1844–1914), American politician from Pennsylvania * Charles James Barclay (U.S. Navy officer) (1843 – after 1905), United States Navy admiral * Charles James Barclay (banker) (1841–1904), Australian banker * Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey (1890–1969), British politician, governor of South Australia * Chris Barclay (born 1983), American football player * Clai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclay Mowlem
Barclay Mowlem was an Australian construction company that traded from 1957 until 2006. History Barclay Bros was established in 1957 in Brisbane by brothers Don and Ian Barclay. The company grew to become one of the largest construction firms in Queensland. In 1958, it expanded internationally by securing a contract to construct a hospital in Madang, Papua New Guinea. In 1971, British construction firm John Mowlem & Co. acquired a 40% stake in the company, later increasing its ownership to 100%. Barclay Bros subsequently expanded its operations across all mainland Australian states, with the exception of South Australia, as well as into Asia. In 1985, Barclay Bros merged with Roberts Construction, resulting in the formation of one of the top five construction companies in Australia. The company was rebranded as Barclay Mowlem in 1988. In December 2005, Barclay Mowlem became part of the acquisition of its parent company, Mowlem, by Carillion. As Carillion did not maintain an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclayville
Barclayville is the capital and most populous settlement in Grand Kru County, located in southeastern Liberia about 10 miles inland from Picinicess. As of the 2008 national census, the population stood at 2,733. The Barclayville township straddles the banks of the Na River. Roads from Kanweaken to the northwest, Pleebo to the southeast, and to Picinicess and Grand Cess to the southeast, all intersect at Barclayville. In March 2006 the United Nations reported completion of the Na River bridge at Barclayville, connecting the Kanweaken and Pleebo roads for the first time. History The modern jurisdiction of Barclayville was created by the administration of President Edwin Barclay in response to the last Kru Wars in the 1930s. As part of the effort to exert central government authority and diminish intertribal conflicts, which had produced devastation, he had four separate villages combined into one township. Until the creation of Barclayville, the constituent villages of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barclays
The FedEx St. Jude Championship, founded as the Westchester Classic in 1967, is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour. The Championship has a partnership with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, with the hospital serving as the tournament's designated charity since 1970. Since 2007, it has been played as the first tournament of the playoff system for the FedEx Cup, with the field limited to the top 70 players on the FedEx Cup points list at the end of the regular season; prior to 2023, the top 125 players were included. For sponsorship reasons, the tournament has previously been titled The Northern Trust, The Barclays, and the Buick Classic. The Westchester Classic was hosted at Westchester Country Club in Harrison, New York until 2007, after which it moved around several courses in New York and New Jersey. In 2018, the PGA Tour announced that The Northern Trust, as it was then known, would alternate between the New York/New Jersey and Boston areas from 2019, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Barclay
Operation Barclay was a World War II deception by the Allies of World War II, Allies in support of Allied invasion of Sicily, Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943. The goal was to deceive the Axis powers as to the location of the Allies' assault across the Mediterranean and to divert the Axis military command's attention and resources. Operation Barclay used bogus troop movements, radio traffic, recruitment of Greek interpreters, and acquisition of Greek maps to indicate an invasion through the Balkans. Operation Barclay created a sham army in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean: the Twelfth Army (United Kingdom), Twelfth Army consisting of 12 fictitious divisions. Adolf Hitler suspected that the Allies would invade Europe through the Balkans, and ''Barclay'' served to reinforce this. As part of Barclay the British also launched Operation Mincemeat, where faked documents were planted via Spain, and Operation Waterfall, in which a decoy invasion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclay College
Barclay College is a private Quaker college in Haviland, Kansas. It is known for ministry degrees but offers degrees in other professional fields. Since the fall of 2007, the college has offered full-tuition scholarships to students who enroll full-time and pay to live in the residence halls. History In 1917, evangelist and teacher Scott T. Clark founded the Kansas Central Bible Training School on the site of Haviland Friends Academy, a Quaker high school in Haviland, Kansas. A two-year junior college course was added in 1925, and the name was changed in 1930 to Friends Bible College to more fully reflect the growing mission of the institution. By 1968, the school's vision put an emphasis on the four-year institution, leading to closure of the high school program and an effort to secure necessary faculty and facilities. This effort received general recognition in 1975 with the granting of full accreditation by the Association for Biblical Higher Education The Association for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barclay School
Barclay Academy is a secondary school and sixth form located in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. The current head teacher is Scarlett O'Sullivan. Opening in 1949, it was the first purpose-built secondary school constructed in the UK after the Second World War and was awarded a Festival of Britain architectural award in 1951. In May 2019, the school celebrated its 70th anniversary. The school contains a large bronze statue by Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract art, abstract monumental Bronze sculpture, bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moore ..., '' Family Group'', which was placed at the school's main entrance and is now inside and can be seen in the front of the school. On 22 January 2018, the BBC visited the school to clear up why the statue had been moved, as there had been an attempted robbery on it in 2009. The school was taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barton Brands
Barton Brands, Ltd. was a company that produced a variety of distilled beverages and liqueurs and is now part of the Sazerac Company, which is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has its principal offices in Louisville, Kentucky. The Barton distillery, currently known as the Barton 1792 distillery, was originally established in 1879, and is located in Bardstown, Kentucky. Some of Barton's better-known brands and products have included the 1792 Bourbon, Kentucky Tavern, and Very Old Barton bourbons; Fleischmann's, Skol and Wave Vodkas; the 99 line of schnapps (99 Apples, 99 Bananas, etc.); Calypso and Barton rums; Capitan, El Toro and Montezuma tequila Tequila (; ) is a liquor, distilled beverage made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, Jalisco, Tequila northwest of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Guadalajara, and in the Jaliscan Highlands (''Los Altos (Jal ...s and Mr. Boston and Fleischmann's gins. In 1993, Barton was acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Barclay Bentley
Jack Barclay Bentley is the world's largest and oldest Bentley dealership and part of the H.R. Owen motor retailing group. John Donald "Jack" Barclay, 1900-1970 Jack Barclay was a driver for Vauxhall. Originally most of his collection of Cups, now owned by his eldest son Anthony, were for successes in Vauxhall cars especially at Brooklands, very few for Bentley. For instance,the Pomeroy Trophy in a Vauxhall. Bentley was added as a dealership in 1926 (whilst Vauxhall was dropped). Their powerful grand tourers dominated endurance racing at Brooklands and Le Mans throughout mid and the late 1920s. Barclay recorded a number of victories at Brooklands, and logged eight world records in the International 3 Litre class in 1925. His racing prowess brought him to the attention of W.O. Bentley himself and later Woolf Barnarto, the millionaire playboy who would go on to be both the chairman of Bentley and one of its works team's most successful racers. Unlike the moneyed Bentley Boys, Jack h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Barclay Sons & Company
Andrew Barclay Sons & Co., currently operating as Brodie Engineering, is a railway engineering company, specialising in the heavy maintenance, refurbishment and overhauls for both passenger and freight rolling stock. Based around its works at Kilmarnock, it is the only active rail engineering business in Scotland. The company's history can be traced back to the establishment of an engineering workshop in Kilmarnock in 1840 by Andrew Barclay. It produced numerous steam locomotives during the nineteenth century and, during the following century, it produced several fireless and diesel locomotives as well. Ownership of the company has been exchanged several times, having become a private limited company in 1892. It was acquired by the Hunslet Group during 1972, after which it was renamed Hunslet-Barclay. During the twenty-first century, the business has changed hands multiple times, having been purchased by LH Group in December 2003, then becoming part of the FKI Group under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclay Manufacturing Company
The Barclay Manufacturing Company was an American metal toy company based in New Jersey that specialised in diecast toy cars and hollowcast toy soldiers. Due to their common availability at five and dime stores, collectors often refer to Barclay's toy soldiers as " Dimestore soldiers". History Barclay Manufacturing was formed by Leon Donze and Michael Levy in about 1922.. The name of the company came from Barclay Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. During the 1930s, the company was later based in North Bergen, New Jersey. In its heyday Barclay produced 500,000 toys a week, making them the largest toy soldier manufacturer at that time in the United States. In 1939 Barclay acquired another toy soldier company, Tommy Toy and its art deco sculptor Olive Kooken. Soldier's uniforms followed military fashion of the times, replacing closed standing collars with open ones with shirt and tie. Wrap around puttees were replaced by canvas leggings. Prior to the company's temporary closing in 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
