Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H — John Shaqi
Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
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Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
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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.
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