Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Charles William Barkley (1759 16 May 1832) was a ship captain and maritime fur trader. He was born in Hertford, England, son of Charles Barkley. His name is sometimes erroneously spelled Barclay due to the misspelling "Barclay Sound" (in what is now British Columbia) on early Admiralty charts, which arose from a mistake from Land District records. The misspelling originated in 1859 with the government agent William Eddy Banfield who issued certificates identifying the "Barclay Land District." The name was corrected to Barkley Sound in 1904.