Editing Robert Barclay (section)

===Early life and education===
Barclay was born at Gordonstoun<ref>David Crystal, editor, ''The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia'', Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 73</ref> in [[Moray]], Scotland. His father [[David Barclay (Quaker)|David Barclay]], first [[laird]] of [[Urie House|Ury]], had served under [[Gustavus Adolphus]], and pursued a somewhat tortuous course through the troubles of the [[Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms|Civil Wars]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Barclay, Robert |volume=3 |pages=394–395}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Barclay | first=R. | title=Genealogical Account of the Barclays of Urie; for Upwards of Seven Hundred Years: With Memoirs of Colonel David Barclay, and His Son Robert Barclay-also Letters that Passed Between Him, the Duke of York ... and Other Distinguished Characters | publisher=J. Herbert | year=1812 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vTsWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA26 | page=26}}</ref> His mother was Katherine Gordon (1620–1663), daughter of Sir [[Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet|Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet]] of Gordonstoun.

Robert was sent to finish his education at the [[Scots College (Paris)|Scots College]], Paris, of which his uncle<ref>His uncle was Robert Barclay (1611/12–1682), see [[ODNB]] article by Brian M. Halloran, 'Barclay, Robert (1611/12–1682)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/67834], accessed 3 December 2007.</ref> was Rector, and made such progress in study as to gain the admiration of his teachers, specially of his uncle, who offered to make him his heir if he would remain in France, and join the Roman Catholic Church.