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.