Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H. Frederic Boase
Tales of the century 1847; Lays of the deer forest, 2 vols. 1848. (m. 9 Oct. 1822 Anne dau. of John Beresford, M.P. for co. Waterford, and widow of Charles Gardiner). d. on board the Rainbow steamer at Pauillac near Bordeaux 25 Dec. 1880. J. H. Ingram’s Claimants to royalty (1882) 252–59; Quarterly Review lxxxi, 57–85 (1847); Edinburgh Review cxiv, 145–82 (1861); Western Antiquary Sep. 1884, 67–72; Doran’s London in Jacobite times ii, 390–412 (1877).
ALLEN, George. b. London Nov. 1800; attorney and solicitor of supreme court at Sydney 1822; mayor of Sydney 1844; member of legislative council N.S.W. 1845 and 1856 to death; chairman of committees 1856–73. d. Toxteth park, Glebe, N.S.W. 3 Nov. 1877.
ALLEN, George John (eld. son of Right Rev. Joseph Allen, bishop of Ely who d. 20 March 1845 aged 75). b. 1810; warden of the college of God’s Gift in Dulwich 1843 to 31 Dec. 1857 when that Corporation was dissolved by 20 and 21 Vict. c. 84, and he was granted an annuity of £1015. d. The Mount, Budleigh Salterton, Devon 19 July 1883.
ALLEN, Henry Robinson. b. Cork 1809; ed. at R.A. of Music; made his début at the English Opera as Elvino in La Sonnambula; A.R.A.M.; tenor vocalist and ballad composer, his song “Maid of Athens” was much sung. d. Shepherd’s Bush, London 27 Nov. 1876.
ALLEN, Rev. Hugh. b. Cork July 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.; scholar 1834, B.A. 1835, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1861; minister of an episcopal chapel at Douglas, Isle of Man, Aug. 1835; C. of St. John’s ch. Bury, Lancs. 1838–48; Inc. of St. Jude’s Whitechapel 1848–59; lecturer of St. Olave’s, Old Jewry 1856–59; R. of St. George the Martyr Southwark 1859 to death; edited the London Messenger 1862. d. 231 New Kent road, London 20 June 1877.
Note.—He was the Sunday afternoon lecturer at church of St. George-in-the-East, London where disturbances began 21 Aug. 1859 in consequence of the Rector the Rev. Bryan King adopting an elaborate ritual and refusing to allow time for the lecture, the riots lasted till 25 June 1860.
ALLEN, James Baylis. b. Birmingham 18 April 1803; employed by W. and E. Finden, engravers in London 1824; engraved many of Turner’s water colour drawings 1830–45, and many large views for the Art Journal. d. Camden Town, London 11 Jany. 1876.
ALLEN, James Mountford (son of Rev. John Allen, V. of Bleddington, Gloucs.) b. Crewkerne, Somerset 14 Aug. 1809; an architect in London to 1856, at Crewkerne 1856 to death; built many churches, rectory houses and schools. d. 27 Feb. 1883.
ALLEN, James Pearce. Spent 5 years in India 1836–41; a publisher in London 1855 to death. d. Grove lodge, Clapham Common 2 Nov. 1878 in 61 year.
ALLEN, John (elder son of Admiral John Carter Allen who d. 2 Oct. 1800). b. 1774; captain R.N. 29 April 1802; admiral on h. p. 30 July 1852. d. Torpoint near Plymouth 4 June 1853.
ALLEN, John. b. Dublin; a woollen draper at 36 College green; committed to Tower of London on a charge of high treason 6 March 1798, tried at Maidstone 21 and 22 May 1798 when acquitted; an associate of Robert Emmett in the insurrection of 23 July 1803; fled to France and became sous-lieutenant in the army Dec. 1803; led the storming party at capture of Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain 10 July 1810; chef de bataillon March 1814; retired on half pay after the Irish regiment was disbanded Sep. 1815; lived at Tours then at Caen. d. Caen 10 Feb. 1855. R. R. Madden’s The united Irishmen, 3rd series iii, 135–39 (1846); Howell’s State Trials xxvi, 1193–1432 (1819), and xxvii, 1–142 (1820).
ALLEN, John. b. Liskeard, Cornwall 26 Sep. 1790; author of State churches and the kingdom of Christ 1853; History of the borough of Liskeard and its vicinity 1856. d. Liskeard 15 Feb. 1859. Annual Monitor for 1860 pp. 3–26.
ALLEN, John Carter Hay, calling himself John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart (elder son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851). Said to have received cross of the Légion d’honneur from hands of Napoleon for bravery on field of Waterloo; lived with his brother Charles at Edinburgh, at Glasgow, at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness; author of Poems 1822; edited the Vestiarium Scoticum 1842. (m. 29 Oct. 1845 Georgiana eld. dau. of Edward Kendall of Cheltenham). d. 52 Stanley st. St. George’s Hanover sq. 13 Feb. 1872.
ALLEN, John Roy (elder son of John Allen of Lyngford, Somerset). b. 1799; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; barrister I.T. 10 Feb. 1826; recorder of Taunton, Andover and Bridgwater. d. Weston super Mare 10 March 1875.
ALLEN, Joseph. Chairman of Brighton bench of magistrates many years; one of the gentlemen of H.M. privy chamber 1838 to death. d. Podstream house Wivelsfield, Sussex 9 Dec. 1851 aged 78.
ALLEN, Joseph. Military superintendent of halls, &c. at Greenwich hospital 1 Sep. 1833 to death; edited Allen’s “New Navy List”; newspaper writer on professional topics. d. Greenwich Hospital 21 Oct. 1864 aged 54.
ALLEN, Joseph William. b. Paradise row, Lambeth 1803; usher at a school at Taunton; theatrical scene painter in London; a founder of “The Society of British Artist” 1823; professor of drawing at city of London school from its opening 2 Feb. 1837 to death. d. Hammersmith 26 Aug. 1852.
ALLEN, Peter. b. Dec. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1849; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. Eng. 1849; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1868; surgeon at Yealand Conyers 1856–68, and in London 1868 to death; aural surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital; author of Practical observations on deafness 1853; Aural Catarrh 1870. d. 117 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 18 Jany. 1874.
ALLEN, Robert (3 son of Samuel Allen of Rue St. Honoré, Paris). An actor; a schoolmaster; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1835; went Oxford circuit; serjeant at law 3 July 1845, received patent of precedence. d. Bessborough st. London 17 Feb. 1854.
ALLEN, Rev. Samuel James. b. near Tower of London 16 June 1798; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1808–16 and Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; University preacher at Cam.; V. of Easingwold, Yorkshire 1838 to death; completed Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire 1823 in which some of the chapters were entirely written by him; author of Lectures in defence of the church of England. d. Easingwold vicarage 29 April 1856.
ALLEN, William. b. Weymouth Nov. 1792; entered navy 2 Oct. 1805; accompanied Richard Lander’s expedition up the river Niger 1832; returned to England April 1834 being one of the nine survivors; commanded steamer Wilberforce in expedition to Niger 1840–42; captain 31 Jany. 1842, retired R.A. 12 April 1862; F.R.G.S. 1835, F.R.S. 18 April 1844; author of The narrative of expedition sent to river Niger 1848; The Dead Sea, a new route to India 1855; exhibited landscape paintings at the R.A. 1828–47. d. Bank house, Weymouth 23 Jany. 1864.
ALLEN, William Ferneley (son of Wm. Houghton Allen of London, publisher who d. 22 Jany. 1855 aged 67). b. 31 Oct. 1816; a publisher in London 1855 to death; sheriff 1857–58; alderman for ward of Cheap 1858 to death, and Lord Mayor 1867–68. d. 13 Waterloo place, London 22 May 1877. bur. in family vault at Sevenoaks, Kent 26 May. I.L.N. li, 517 (1867), portrait.
ALLEN, William Henry. Solicitor in London 1826 to death; principal of Clifford’s Inn 13 May 1833 to death. d. 20 Oct. 1854 aged 71.
ALLEN, William Philip. b. near town of Tipperary April 1848; a carpenter in Cork, Dublin and Chester; helped to rescue Colonel Kelly the Fenian from a prison van at Manchester 18 Sep. 1867; in the mêlée, a police sergeant named Brett was killed; executed at the old prison Manchester 23 Nov. 1867. Speeches from the dock. Dublin 1868.
ALLEYNE, Sir Reynold Abel, 2 Baronet. b. 10 June 1789; ed. at Eton; succeeded his father 1801; member of council in Barbados 30 years; col. of 2 regiment of militia there. d. Burton under Needwood 14 Feb. 1870.
ALLEYNE, Sarah Frances. b. Clifton 15 Oct. 1836; organised courses of lectures for women; member of council of Clifton high school for girls; sec. of Oxford local examination at Clifton; translated E. Zeller’s Plato and the older Academy 1876 and M. Duncker’s History of Greece 1883. d. London 16 Aug. 1884. bur. Redland Green churchyard 21 Aug.
ALLIES, Jabez