Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay (both born on 27 October 1934) are British businessmen. They are twin brothers and are frequently described as being reclusive, which their spokesmen deny. Sir David's son, Aidan Barclay, manages their UK businesses. October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Set out below is an annotated listing of corporate leaders, who are or have been the head of large or successful business enterprises, or who are otherwise well known for their commercial acumen, listed alphabetically by last name. ... Fraternal twin boys in the tub Twins in animal biology is a case of multiple birth in which the mother gives birth to two offspring from the same pregnancy. ...

Their Press Holdings company owns The Business and The Spectator magazine. The Telegraph Group Limited titles are controlled via a wholly owned subsidiary Press Acquisitions Limited (see [[1]]). Press Holdings is the name of a British holding company owned by the Barclay brothers which owns The Telegraph, as well as The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, the Edinburgh Evening News, The Business, The Spectator, the Apollo arts magazine, as well as operating some online journalism ventures. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... The Spectator is a conservative British political magazine, established 1828, published weekly. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ...

The Barclay brothers were born within ten minutes of each other in London to Scottish Roman Catholic parents who had ten children. Their father died when they were 12, and they left school four years later to work in the accounts department at General Electric, before doing a stint as painters and decorators. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...

By 1962, they started redeveloping old boarding houses in London and making them into hotels. In 1975, they bought the Howard Hotel, overlooking the Thames at Temple Place. In 1983 they bought Ellerman, the brewing and shipping group for £45m. They later sold its brewing division for £240m. They used the proceeds to buy the Ritz Hotel on London's Piccadilly.

In 1992, they entered the newspaper publishing industry, buying the late Robert Maxwell's unsuccessful newspaper, The European. Three years later, they bought The Scotsman newspaper, and in 1996 appointed former Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil to oversee their publishing interests. Robert Maxwell Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991), British media proprietor, rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing business. ... The European, billed as Europes first national newspaper, was a weekly newspaper founded by Robert Maxwell, the first edition appearing on May 11, 1990. ... The Scotsmans offices in Edinburgh The Scotsman is a Scottish newspaper published in Edinburgh. ... The Sunday Times is the name of several Sunday newspapers. ... Andrew Ferguson Neil (born May 21, 1949) is a British journalist and broadcaster. ...

In 1998 they relaunched Sunday Business Newspaper with editor Jeff Randall. Sunday Business First Edition Sunday Business was a national Sunday broadsheet newspaper published in the United Kingdom. ...

They are reported to be close friends of Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster. According to newspaper reports, the Cardinal has stayed at the Barclay brothers' home on the Channel Island of Brecqhou and is believed to have blessed the brothers' private chapel and said Mass for them there (see [[2]]). Cormac Cardinal Murphy-OConnor (born 24 August 1932 in Reading, Berkshire) is an English prelate, the Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Bishops Conference of England and Wales. ... This is a map of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. ...

The Barclays are noted philanthropists and were knighted in 2000 for their support to medical research, to which they have given an estimated £40 million between 1987 and 2000.

In 1993, the Barclay brothers bought the tenement of the island of Brecqhou, one of the Channel Islands, located just west of Sark. Since the purchase the Barclays have been in several legal disputes with the government of Sark and have expressed a desire to make Brecqhou politically independent from Sark. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... This is a map of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. ... The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Normandy, France, in the English Channel. ... Flag of Sark Sark (in French, Sercq, in Sercquiais Sèr) is a small island of the Channel Islands, part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. ...

In 2002, the brothers purchased the Liverpool based retail company Littlewoods P.L.C. from its founders the Moores family for £750m. The deal was bankrolled by HBOS, which also took a 5% equity stake in the brothers bidding vehicle, LW Investments. The brothers merged the company with Shop Direct to form Littlewoods Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited, which operates a majority share of the United Kingdom's home shopping market. However their scrapping of the Littlewoods tradition of giving 1% of profits to charities led to accusations of mean-spiritedness. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Template:Warningbox Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in North West England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ... Littlewoods Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited () is a United Kingdom retail company, based in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. ... Littlewoods Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited () is a United Kingdom retail company, based in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. ...

In 2004 they were listed in 42nd place with an estimate of £750m on the Sunday Times Rich List, and in 2005 they were ranked 33rd with a value of £1.3 billion (USD $2.3 billion). 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Sunday Times Rich List is a list of the 1,000 most wealthy people or families in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, updated annually in April and published by British national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times since 1989. ...

In July 2004, they bought The Telegraph Group which includes The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Spectator after months of intense bidding and lawsuits. The Telegraph Group was owned by Hollinger Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the newspaper group controlled by the Canadian-born British businessman/financier Lord Black of Crossharbour. This article concerns the British newspaper. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... This article is about the British weekly magazine: there are articles on several other magazines called The Spectator such as Addison and Steeles influential literary magazine, The Spectator (1711), and the others can be found at The Spectator (disambiguation). ... Hollinger Inc. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour OC, PC, (born August 25, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec), is a British biographer, financier and newspaper magnate. ...

The Brothers' period as newspaper proprietors has been more tumultuous than their property interests. They have a reputation as hands-off owners. David Short, a journalist who previously worked on The European, said that he could offer no stories of "strong-armed interference, diktats, statesmannish grandiosity - zilch, nada, rien." However their executives, in particular Neil and Murdoch MacLennan, are controversial figures in journalistic circles. Critics said The European alienated readers when Neil transformed it from a Europhile newspaper into a Eurosceptic magazine. During their ownership of The Scotsman the newspaper went through seven editors in nine years. At the Telegraph Group, MacLennan made over 100 journalists redundant in 2006, prompting the National Union of Journalists to consider strike action. The Sunday Telegraph editor Dominic Lawson was replaced by Sarah Sands in June 2005 but lasted nine months. Patience Wheatcroft, from The Times was appointed editor in March 2006. The European, billed as Europes first national newspaper, was a weekly newspaper founded by Robert Maxwell, the first edition appearing on May 11, 1990. ... The European, billed as Europes first national newspaper, was a weekly newspaper founded by Robert Maxwell, the first edition appearing on May 11, 1990. ... The Scotsmans offices in Edinburgh The Scotsman is a Scottish newspaper published in Edinburgh. ... The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is a trade union for journalists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... The Honourable Dominic Ralph Campden Lawson (born December 17, 1956) is a British journalist, the son of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson and brother of TV chef and writer Nigella Lawson. ... Sarah Sands (1961- ) is a British journalist. ... Patience Wheatcroft a British journalist who is currently editor of the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ...

On 19 December 2005, the Barclays sold The Scotsman Publications Ltd., itself then part of Press Holdings Group, for £160 million to Johnston Press. The Barclays had owned these publications for a decade, and said they intend to use the capital raised on their other interests. December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Press Holdings is the name of a British holding company owned by the Barclay brothers which owns The Telegraph, as well as The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, the Edinburgh Evening News, The Business, The Spectator, the Apollo arts magazine, as well as operating some online journalism ventures. ...

In October 2006, the Barclays sold handbag.com for £22 million. This was almost all profit: they set up the website in a joint venture with Boots in 1999. [3]

External links

• BBC: Telegraph empire in tycoons' grip - 18 January 2004
• BBC: Profile of the Barclay Brothers
• The Scotsman: Barclay brothers land Telegraph group as £677m deal is finally done
• Barclays Take Over at Telegraph (includes links to related stories)
• Lady Beatrice photo of the Barclay brothers' megayacht in Monaco
• [4] Description of Barclay brothers' skills as newspaper proprietors.