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.
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.
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.