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Thomas Allen (1813–92)

Barrister. Pupil at Shrewsbury School, 1824–31. BA, Oxford (Balliol), 1835; entered Lincoln’s Inn, 1838; moved to the Inner Temple and was called to the bar, 1841. A second cousin of Emma Darwin. Probably the boy ‘Allan’ entertained at The Mount by CD’s sisters in 1825.

Sources

Alum. Oxon.

Correspondence vol. 1, letter from Catherine and Susan Darwin, 4 December [1825]

Healey 2001 (Allen family tree)

Basil H. J. Hughes, Pembrokeshire gazetteer, www.cenquest.co.uk/basil.htm, s.v. Carew (accessed 20 November 2014)

Men-at-the-bar

Shrewsbury School register