Derrick has thus described Allen's personal appearance shortly before his death: "He is a very grave, well-looking man, plain in his dress, resembling that of a Quaker, and courteous in his behaviour. I suppose he cannot be much under seventy. His wife is low, with grey hair, and of a very pleasing address." Kilvert says that he was rather above the middle size and stoutly built, and that he was not altogether averse to a little state, as he often used to drive into Bath in a coach and four. His handwriting was very curious; he evidently wrote quickly and fluently, but it was so
overloaded with curls and flourishes as to be sometimes scarcely legible.
The lack of all show about his garb seems to have somewhat annoyed Philip Thicknesse, the well-known author of one of the Bath Guides, for he speaks of Allen's "plain linen shirt-sleeves, with only a chitterling up the slit."
Allen's son Philip became Comptroller of the "By-Letter" Department in the London Post Office.
Ralph Allen's Tomb in Claverton Churchyard, near Bath.
By kind permission of the Proprietor of the "Bath and County Graphic."