Note.—His personalty was sworn under £250,000 Sept. 1874.
ALLAN, Sir Hugh (2 son of Alexander Allan, commander of ships trading between the Clyde and Montreal). b. Saltcoats, Ayrshire 29 Sep. 1810; clerk in house of Wm. Kerr and Co. Montreal 1826–29; partner in firm of Millar and Edmonstone of Montreal, shipowners 1835; partner with Edmonstone 1 May 1839; established April 1856 a line of steamers from Montreal to Liverpool, called the Montreal Ocean steamship company, afterwards the Allan line; knighted by patent 24 July 1871. (m. 13 Sep. 1844 Matilda Caroline 2 dau. of John Smith of Montreal, she d. 11 June 1881 aged 63). d. 27 St. Andrew sq. Edinburgh 9 Dec. 1882. bur. Montreal 27 Dec. H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians 1862, pp. 669–74; W. S. Lindsay’s History of merchant shipping iv, 260–64 (1876).
ALLAN, James. Major 94 foot 20 July 1809 to 25 Dec. 1818, when placed on h. p. regiment being disbanded; served in Peninsular war 1810–14; lieut. col. 57 foot 20 March 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 50 foot 11 Oct. 1852 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Cheltenham 17 Feb. 1853.
ALLAN, James. b. Aberdeen; sec. to Peninsular steam navigation company when first formed 1837; this was first company which ran steamers to distant foreign ports, the Iberia first steamer despatched with Peninsular mails in Sep. 1837; the first sec. of Peninsular and Oriental company 1840; one of the 3 managing directors 1848 to death; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1849. d. Camp’s hill, Lewisham near London 15 Sep. 1874 aged 63. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 283–85 (1875).
ALLARDICE, Robert Bridges Barclay, known as Captain Barclay (eld. son of Robert Barclay of Ury, Kincardineshire 1731–97, founder of town of Stonehaven, who assumed name of Allardice 1776). b. Ury 25 Aug. 1779; kept a pack of fox hounds at Ury 1807; walked from London to Birmingham viâ Cambridge 150 miles in 2 days Dec. 1799; walked 100 miles in 19 hours Dec. 1801; captain 71 foot 13 March 1806; major 20 Jany. 1814 to 31 March 1814 when he resigned; lieut. col. Kincardineshire militia; walked 1000 miles in 1000 successive hours at the rate of a mile in each and every hour at Newmarket 1 June to 12 July 1809, when about £100,000 changed hands on the result; trained Tom Cribb at Ury July-Aug. 1811 for his great fight with Tom Molineaux the Black, which Cribb won 28 Sep. 1811; a great agriculturist and cattle breeder; claimed the Earldom of Airth 1839 and the Earldoms of Strathern and Monteith 1840. (m. 19 July 1819 Mary dau. of Alexander Dalgarno of Wales st. Aberdeen, she d. 30 Aug. 1820 aged 23). Found dead in his bed at Ury 1 May 1854. bur. in family burying ground called the Houff, which contains an account of the family from year 1110. H. H. Dixon’s Field and fern (North) 1865 pp. 196–210; Pugilistica by H. D. Miles i, 435–39 (1880), portrait; Pedestrianism [by Walter Thom] Aberdeen 1813, portrait; The eccentric mag. i, 133–50 (1812), portrait.
Note.—The coach called the Defiance (of which he was one of the 5 proprietors) ran from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and was the fastest and best conducted coach in the United Kingdom, it performed the journey 126 miles in 12 hours; it ran its first journey 1 July 1829 and its last Oct. 1849. The 1000 mile feat has never been performed by any other man, although many persons are stated to have done it.
ALLASON, Thomas. b. London 31 July 1790; architect in London 1817; employed in landscape gardening; a comr. of Board of Metropolitan Sewers; author of Picturesque views of the antiquities of Pola in Istria 1819. d. 9 April 1852.
ALLCROFT, Jeremiah Macklin. b. 1791; partner in firm of Dent, Allcroft and Co. of Wood st. London and Worcester, glovers; chamberlain of Worcester 1832–33. d. Worcester 6 July 1867.
ALLEN, Charles, calling himself Charles Edward Lewis Casimir Stuart, Count d’Albanie (only son of Charles Manning Allen 1799–1880). Col. in the Austrian army. (m. 15 May 1874 Alice Mary Emily 3 and youngest dau. of the 17 Earl of Errol, she was b. 7 July 1835 and d. 7 June 1881.) d. 8 May 1882 aged 57, thus ending this dynasty of modern pretenders.
ALLEN, Charles. b. 1808; a member of Financial council, Calcutta; alderman of Tenby; mayor 2 or 3 times; sheriff of co. Pembroke 1876. d. Tenby 5 Nov. 1884.