Roderick Barclay

Sir Roderick Edward Barclay GCVO KCMG (2 February 1909 – 24 October 1996) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Denmark and Belgium.

He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1932 and served at British embassies at Brussels, Paris, Washington, D.C., and at the Foreign Office as head of the Personnel Department.

Barclay was a surprising choice as Bevin's Private Secretary since, at first sight, he and his intended master had nothing in common.

[2] He took part in Edward Heath's attempt to join the then European Economic Community which, however, was vetoed in 1963 by French President Charles de Gaulle.

In 1941 he married Jean Cecil Gladstone, only daughter of Sir Hugh Steuart Gladstone of Capenoch,[4] and his wife Cecil Emily Talbot,[5] (d. 1949), a great-granddaughter of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot (father of the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury).