Dr. E. J. Allen, C.B.E, F.R.S

Abstract

THE Rev. Richard Allen of Lancashire, and his wife Emma Johnson, of Bide ford in Devon, had good reason to be proud of their family of eight, which consisted of five sons and three daughters, four of whom survive. The sons were the late Dr. H. N. Allen, professor of electrical engineering and afterwards principal of the College of Science at Poona ; the late Mr. C. B. Allen, assistant general manager of the Midland Bank ; the late Dr. E. J. Allen, F. R. S., until 1936 director of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Plymouth ; Mr. E. L. Allen, of the School of Art, Redditch ; and Dr. H. S. Allen, F. R. S., professor of natural philosophy at St. Andrews.