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 (2 son of Wm. Allies of Alfrick in Lusley co. Worcester). b. Alfrick 22 Oct. 1787; a solicitor in London; author of The causes of planetary motion 1838; The antiquities and folk lore of Worcestershire 2 ed. 1852, the best work on local field names ever published. d. Tivoli house, Cheltenham 29 Jany. 1856.
ALLIOTT, Rev. Richard (son of Rev. Richard Alliott, pastor of congregational church in Castle Gate, Nottingham). b. 1 Sep 1804; ed. at Homerton college and Glasgow univ.; LLD. 1840; assistant minister to his father 1828; co-pastor with him 1830–40; ordained Jany. 1830; pastor of same church 1840; of church in York road, Lambeth, London 1843–49; pres. of Western college, Plymouth 1849–57; pres. of Cheshunt college 1857; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales 1858; professor of dogmatic and general theology and philosophy at Spring Hill college, Birmingham, Sep. 1860 to death; pastor of church at Acock’s Green near Birmingham 1860 to death; author of Psychology and Theology 1854. d. Acock’s Green 20 Dec. 1863.
ALLMAN, Thomas. Bookseller in Princes st. Hanover sq. 1817; at Holborn hill 1830–59, when he retired. d. 2 Clifton villas, Maida hill, London 3 Dec. 1870 aged 78.
ALLOCK, Jon Junim. b. China; brought to England by Andrew Ducrow the equestrian about 1819; a great attraction at Astley’s, London as a Chinese juggler; travelled with Ducrow all over Europe and America; fell from a horse and broke his thigh about 1841; lived at Glasgow about 1845 to death. d. Glasgow 9 Aug. 1859 aged nearly 80.