Arthur Kett Barclay FRS, FRAS, FRGS, FGS (Bury Hill, Derbyshire, 20 June 1806 – 20 November 1869, Bury Hill, Dorking, Surrey) was a member of the Meteorological Society.
Barclay attended Harrow School after a period of private tutoring.
At the age of twenty (in 1826) he joined Barclay, Perkins & Co. brewers of Southwark, London.
In 1848 Arthur Kett Barclay built his own astronomical observatory at Bury Hill, Dorking, Surrey.
The revolving dome was made by Ransomes & May of Ipswich and the eight-inch (203mm) aperture refracting telescope was by Troughton & Simms of London[1] Barclay supported the Conservative Party, but "would never consent to be brought forward as a candidate".