James Lent Barclay

James Lent Barclay (October 5, 1848 – July 2, 1925) was an American member of New York society during the Gilded Age.

Early life Barclay was born on October 5, 1848, in Newtown on Long Island. He was the third child and second son of four children born to Henry Barclay (1794–1863) and Sarah Ann Moore (1809–1873). His siblings were Henry Anthony Barclay (1844–1905), Fannie Barclay (1846–1922), and Sackett Moore Barclay (1850–1918).

His maternal grandfather was Daniel Sackett Moore. He was president of the Barclay Realty Company which was located at 299 Broadway in Manhattan. The company managed his family's extensive real estate holdings, generally located near Barclay Street, named for his ancestors. Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.

He was a member of the Union Club, of which he was a governor, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Meadow Brook Golf Club, and the Southampton Club. She was the daughter of Isaac Bell and Adelaide (née Mott) Bell, and the sister of Isaac Bell Jr. (1846–1889), the businessman and diplomat. Before her death, they were the parents of one daughter: a dramatist who was part of the Lafayette Flying Corps and was the son of Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, in 1903. She later married Carlos G. Mayer. Adelaide was the mother of Olivia Barclay Boyesen, who married Dudley William Persse (1901–1976) of the Royal Artillery in 1928, and Allardyce Barclay Boyesen, who married Philippe Hottinguer, the son of Baron Henri Hottinguer, in 1931.

After the death of his first wife in 1894, he married Priscilla Palmer Dixon (1851–1924), the widow of Thomas Chalmers Sloane (1847–1890) of the W. & J. Sloane Company, on April 16, 1896, at her home on West 51st Street in Manhattan. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.