Percy Stafford Allen was born on July 7, 1869, in Twickenham, England.

He was a British classical scholar best known for his writings on Desiderius Erasmus. He received his early education in Rottingdean. From 1882, he studied Latin and Greek at Clifton College and, after 1888, at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A., 1892; M.A., 1896). From 1897 to 1901, he taught history at Government College in Lahore, British India (now Pakistan). He returned to Oxford in 1908 as a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. From 1924 to 1933, he was president of Corpus Christi College. In 1925, he delivered the British Academy's Master-Mind Lecture on "Erasmus' Services to Learning." In 1928, Allen became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the editor of the complete letters of Erasmus of Rotterdam (12 volumes). He also published “The Age of Erasmus: Lectures,” delivered at the University of Oxford and London (1914), and “Letters of Richard Fox, 1486–1527” (1929).

In 1898, he married Helen Mary Allen (1872–1952), who made significant contributions to their scholarly collaborations and was acknowledged through several honours: she received honorary doctorates from the University of Basel (1946) and the University of Amsterdam (1948), as well as an honorary M.A. degree from Oxford (1932). Allen died on June 16, 1933, in Oxford, England.

Robert Allen was a customer of Montreal tailors McFarlane & Gibb.

Samuel H. Allen was born on August 15, 1862, in Mount Pleasant, Utah.

He was an American physician. After graduating from the University of Utah in 1881, he began his medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1888, receiving his degree in 1890. In 1891, he returned to Utah and established a reputation as one of the foremost surgeons in the state. In 1916, he and Dr. George W. Middleton formed a multi-specialty group practice, the Inter-Mountain Clinic.

In 1892, he married Ida May Lowry (1865-1963). He died on August 30, 1926, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Solon Mather Allis was born on June 28, 1838, in Danville, Quebec.

He was a Civil War veteran, enlisted in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1862. During the Civil War, he was in the battles of Gum Swamp, Kinston, White Hall and Goldsboro, N.C. In 1863, by order of Gen. John G. Fortis, he was placed on detached service in the Engineering Department until October 1864, when he was mustered out with his regiment at Norfolk, Va. For the next two and a half years, Allis was employed by the United States Government on the fortifications of Boston Harbor. Then, he worked on the preliminary survey of the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad. In 1879, Allis went to Arizona, where he was United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor for six years. During that period, he laid out the town of Tombstone. For a year, he was Superintendent of Mines in Mexico. In 1886, he returned East and was elected Superintendent of Water Works in Malden, Mass., the position he held for six years. Upon his return to Malden, he was employed in landscape engineering in different parts of the United States. He also spent a year in Nova Scotia surveying and preparing plans for an electric power plant on the Port Medway River. Then, he worked for the Boston Elevated R. R. Company and later became inspector for Essex County on the construction of the new county bridge at Haverhill, Mass. Because of failing eyesight, he gave up engineering and, for a few years, acted as general agent for the Fraternity Publishing Company, visiting many parts of the United States.

In 1863, he married Victoria M. Higgins. He died on August 22, 1918, in Whitman, Massachusetts.

David Allison was born on July 3, 1836, in Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia.

He was a Canadian professor, educational administrator, and author. He was president of Mount Allison College (1869-1878) and later of Mount Allison University (1891-1911). He studied at the Dalhousie Collegiate School (later Dalhousie University), the Wesleyan Academy in Sackville, New Brunswick, and Wesleyan University in Connecticut (B.A., 1859; M.A., 1862). In 1862, he became a professor of classics at Mount Allison College and succeeded Humphrey Pickard as president of the college in 1869. He was active in advocating the innovation of women’s undergraduate education. In 1877, Allison was named superintendent of education for Nova Scotia. He developed an English grammar for use in Nova Scotia schools and wrote a three-volume “History of Nova Scotia” (1916). He returned to Mount Allison University in 1891 for his second term as president.

In 1862, he married Elizabeth Ann Powell (1839–1898), and in 1902, he remarried Ellen Elizabeth Cummins. He died on February 13, 1924, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Frederick Allison, an Englishman, was Napoleon's orderly during his final exile on St. Helena.

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