A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Allen, Anthony

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 26 October, 1704.

Fifth son of William Allen, of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, where he was born about 1684. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he graduated in 1707. After his call to the Bar on 22 June, 1710, he became a Master in Chancery. He was Reader at the Inn in 1745 and Treasurer in 1749. He died 11 April, 1754, and was buried in the Temple Church. He compiled a biographical account of the members of Eton College in five volumes, and also collected materials for a dictionary of English obsolete words.