12 September 2013 A.D. Oliver Barclay passes to the Church Triumphant: A (Calvinistic) General Secretary of IVF/UCCF
12 September 2013 A.D. Oliver Barclay passes to the Church Triumphant: A (Calvinistic) General Secretary of IVF/UCCF. http://www.uccf.org.uk/news/oliver-barclay-1919-2013.htm Oliver Barclay, a scion of the banking family and second General Secretary of IVF/UCCF, died at his home in Leicester yesterday, 12 September 2013, aged 94. He was born in Kobe, Japan, on 22 February 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. Oliver first joined the small IVF team in 1945, having completed a doctorate in zoology. His original hope was to teach in one of China’s newer universities, but Douglas Johnson, IVF founding General Secretary (always known as DJ), persuaded him to defer his departure by two years. As Oliver’s newly-created role as Assistant Secretary took shape, it soon became clear that the u...