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Reginald Clifford Allen, 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood, was born on May 9, 1889, in Newport, Wales.

He was a British politician, peace campaigner, and author. He was educated at University College, Bristol, and Cambridge University (1908-1911). He served as Secretary and then General Manager of the Daily Citizen from 1911 to 1915. He was Chairman of the No-Conscription Fellowship during World War I and was imprisoned as a conscientious objector three times. After the war, he was Treasurer and Chairman of the Independent Labour Party (1922-1926), Chairman of the New Leader (1922-1926), and director of the Daily Herald (1925-1930). In 1934, he co-founded the Next Five Years Group seeking a progressive centre-left re-alignment in British politics. He published numerous essays, articles, and speeches on pacifism, socialism, and the Labour government.

In 1921, he married Baroness Marjory Gill (1897–1976). He suffered from tuberculosis because of his imprisonment. He died on March 3, 1939, recovering in a sanatorium in Switzerland.

Joel Asaph Allen was born on July 19, 1838, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

He was an American zoologist, mammalogist, and ornithologist. He began studying and collecting specimens of natural history early in life. However, he had to sell his large collection to attend the Wilbraham & Monson Academy in 1861. The next year, he transferred to Harvard University, where he studied under Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and became a staff member in 1871. Allen participated in the 1865-1866 Thayer Expedition to Brazil where he collected bird and mammal skins, geological specimens, fishes, reptiles, and other vertebrates. He also took part in several U.S. expeditions, collecting, surveying, and making scientific observations. At The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), Allen increasingly focused on acquiring, researching, and writing, as well as editorial work. He cataloged thousands of specimens of birds and mammals in the museum's collections and provided editorial supervision for the Bulletin of the AMNH and the Memoirs of the AMNH. He was the first president of the American Ornithologists' Union for seven years from its formation in 1883 and was editor of the journal The Auk for 27 years. In 1871, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1885, he was appointed as the first curator of birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, later becoming the first head of the museum's Department of Ornithology. He was also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Philosophical Society.

In 1874, he married Mary Manning Cleveland (1846–1879) and, in 1886, he remarried Susan A. Taft (1843–). He died on August 29, 1921, in Cornwall, New York.

Oscar Dana Allen was born on February 24 or 25, 1836, in Hebron, Maine.

In 1871, he received a PhD. in chemistry from Yale University and became a professor of analytical chemistry and metallurgy at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University from 1871 to 1887. His professional research was done chiefly on cesium and rubidium with the results published in the American Journal of Science. He also edited and revised the American edition of Fresenius' “Quantitative Analysis” in 1881. He was an amateur botanist interested in the study of bryology and corresponding with prominent bryologists and botanists of North America. He collected many species of mosses and hepatics and two of them were named in his honour, Thuidium allenii and Fontinalis allenii. In 1884, he moved to California and later to Washington, where he collected many western flowering plants for the Gray Herbarium of the Harvard University. With his son John A. Allen, he assembled the moss herbarium that was later purchased by the New York Botanical Garden. He was also a linguist interested in the study of obscure languages.

In 1861, he married Fidelia Totman. He died on February 19, 1913, in Ashford, Washington.

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.