Oliver Barclay 1919 – 2013

UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Oct 2013
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Oliver Barclay 1919 – 2013

One of the men who has had the greatest influence on post-war evangelicalism has gone to be with the Lord

Oliver Barclay, second General Secretary of IVF/UCCF, died at his home in Leicester on September 12, aged 94.

He was born in Kobe, Japan, on February 22 1919, the son of Joseph Gurney Barclay (who served with what is now the Church Mission Society). His great grandfather was the MP Thomas Fowell Buxton who campaigned with William Wilberforce as part of the influential Clapham Sect.

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