Dictionary of Indian Biography/Allen, Charles

by Charles Edward Buckland

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ALLEN, CHARLES (1808–1884)

I.C.S. : born July 29, 1808 : son of Rev. David Bird Allen : educated at Westminster and Haileybury : went to India 1827 : served chiefly in the N.W.P. : Magte. Collr. of Moradabad, 1837 : Hamirpur, 1841 : Settlement Officer in Bundel-kund : Judge at Agra, 1843–9 : and at Fatehghar : acted as Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, 1852 : Financial Secretary, 1854 : and Member of the Legislative Council of India, 1854 : retired, 1857 : died, Nov. 5, 1884 : was J. P. and Alderman and Mayor of Tenby, and High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, 1876 : wrote in support of Lord Dalhousie The Yellow Pamphlet in answer to Colonel G.B. Malleson's Red Pamphlet at the time of the mutiny.