Henry Harclay (also Henry of Harclay), was an English philosopher. He was a Chancellor

Chancellor (education)

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 of the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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 (1313–1316), and a secular master and scholastic philosopher. He played an important role in Oxford and Paris during the first two decades of the fourteenth century. While in Paris, he produced a commentary on book I of the Sentences of Peter Lombard

Peter Lombard

Peter Lombard was a scholastic theologian and bishop and author of Four Books of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology, for which he is also known as Magister Sententiarum-Biography:Peter Lombard was born in Lumellogno , in...

, perhaps a reportatio of lectures from around 1300.

He was the son of Sir Michael Harclay and Joan Fitzjohn, and the younger brother of Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle

Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle

Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle , alternatively Andreas de Harcla, was an important English military leader in the borderlands with Scotland during the reign of Edward II. Coming from a knightly family in Westmorland, he was appointed sheriff of Cumberland in 1311...

.