John Allen (archdeacon of Salop)

John Allen (25 May 1810 - 13 December 1886)[1] was Archdeacon of Salop from 15 December 1847 until 23 March 1886.[2]

Allen was born at Burton, Pembrokeshire where his father was the rector. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] He was ordained in 1834 and became a Lecturer at King's College London. In 1846, he became Vicar of Prees, a post he held until 1883.

He shared a great-grandfather with Emma Darwin.[4] Through his daughter Grace, he was the grandfather of Selwyn MacGregor Grier and Lynda Grier.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Obituary. The Times (London, England), Friday, Dec 17, 1886; pg. 7; Issue 31945
  2. ↑ Shropshire Parish registers. Diocese of Lichfield. Phillimore, W.P.W. (Ed) Lichfield, Shropshire Parish Register Society, 1913
  3. ↑ Venn, John & Venn, John Archibald. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Cambridge University Press Part I vol. i p37
  4. ↑ "Grace Allen (1843–1877)". Darwin Correspondence Project. Retrieved 27 June 2026.
  5. ↑ Tullberg, Rita Mcwilliams (2004). "Grier, (Mary) Lynda Dorothea (1880–1967)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48438. Retrieved 14 January 2017. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ↑ "Grace Allen (1843–1877)". Darwin Correspondence Project. Retrieved 27 June 2026.
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