Robert Steven Barclay FRSE (13 September 1901 – 20 March 1973) was a Scottish statistician, noted as a scholar of Orkney.
[1] Barclay served as an Ordinary Seaman in the Merchant Service from 1929 to 1933.
During World War II he served as Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve.
In the same year, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
His proposers were William O. Kermack, Alexander Aitken, Frank Fraser Darling, James G. Kydd and J.