ALLEN, Charles Manning, calling himself Charles Edward Stuart, Count d’Albanie (younger son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851, by Katharine Matilda dau. of Rev. Owen Manning, V. of Godalming, Surrey. T. G. Allen called himself James Stuart, Count d’Albanie and affirmed that he was son of Charles Stuart the young Pretender by the Princess Louisa of Stolberg-Gädern). b. Versailles 4 June 1799; served in advanced guard of Napoleon’s army at Waterloo; assumed Christian name of Stuart 1822; changed his name to Allan-Hay; changed again to Stuart; lived with his brother John at Edin. then at Glasgow then at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness; author with his brother John of The costume of the clans 1845; 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.