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. ALLEN, PETER. _b._ Dec. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1849; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. Eng. 1849; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1868; surgeon at Yealand Conyers 1856–68, and in London 1868 to death; aural surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital; author of _Practical observations on deafness_ 1853; _Aural Catarrh_ 1870. _d._ 117 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 18 Jany. 1874. ALLEN, ROBERT (_3 son of Samuel Allen of Rue St. Honoré, Paris_). An actor; a schoolmaster; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1835; went Oxford circuit; serjeant at law 3 July 1845, received patent of precedence. _d._ Bessborough st. London 17 Feb. 1854. ALLEN, REV. SAMUEL JAMES. _b._ near Tower of London 16 June 1798; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1808–16 and Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; University preacher at Cam.; V. of Easingwold, Yorkshire 1838 to death; completed _Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire_ 1823 in which some of the chapters were entirely written by him; author of _Lectures in defence of the church of England_. _d._ Easingwold vicarage 29 April 1856.