A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Allman, Professor George Johnston

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Allman, Professor George Johnston, LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., Irish mathematician. B. Sep. 28, 1824. Ed. Trinity College, Dublin, where he was senior moderator and gold medallist in mathematics, and Bishop Law's mathematical prize-man. He graduated in law in 1854, but he preferred mathematics, and was professor at Queen's College, Galway, from 1853 to 1893. He was also a member of the Senate of Queen's University and the Royal University of Ireland. Professor Allman was as an earnest and high-minded Positivist, but his academic position in an Irish college prevented him from taking open part in the movement (Positivist Review, July, 1904). D. May 9, 1904.