George Baugh Allen
Biography
Allen was the elder son of Lancelot Baugh Allen, Master (i.e. headmaster) of Dulwich College, and his first wife Caroline Jane (née Romilly). He was of the Allen family of Creselly, Pembrokeshire.Burke's Landed Gentry He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge.{{acad|id=ALN838GB|name=Allen, George Baugh}} His brother Edmund{{acad|id=ALN842EE|name=Allen, Edmund Edward}} followed an ecclesiastical career.
He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1842, but was not called to the bar, instead working as a special pleader for fifty years.{{Cite book |last=Venn |first=John |url=https://www.google.co.ke/books/edition/Alumni_Cantabrigienses/WPPcP39XDDIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=george+baugh+allen&pg=PA35&printsec=frontcover |title=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 |last2=Venn |first2=John Archibald |date=2011-09-15 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-03611-5 |language=en}} He was described in Alumni Cantabrigienses as "the last of the great special pleaders". Sydney Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford was once his pupil.The Times, Tuesday, Jul 28, 1931; pg. 14; Issue 45886; col B
Lord Knutsford "The Prince Of Beggars"
Category: Obituaries He was also justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for Pembrokeshire.
He married 1846 Dorothea Hannah Eaton, daughter of Roger Eaton. They had eight children:
- John Romilly Allen (1847-1907)
- George Allen (1848-?)
- Wilfred Baugh Allen (1849-1922)
- Mary Catherine Romilly Allen (1851-?)
- Annie Emma Allen (1852-1942)
- Dora Blanche Allen (1854-?)
- Joseph Henry Baugh Allen (1856-?)
- Wilmot Baugh Allen (1857-1923){{acad|id=ALN880WB|name=Allen, Wilmot Baugh}}
He died at 5, Albert Terrace, Regent's Park, LondonThe Times, Wednesday, Sep 21, 1898; pg. 1; Issue 35627; col A
Deaths
Category: Deaths
References
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