▶Date of birth:  1857      Place of birth:   Islington, London

▶Father:  Thomas Kingdon Allen            Mother:  Louisa Challenger

▶Spouse(s):  (1) Frances Susannah Burton Pearman; (2) Lucy Kindon; (3) Marion Jane Gifford Cooper     Date(s) of marriage:  (1) 2 October 1883; (2) 29 June 1892; (3)       Place(s) of marriage: (1) St Mary’s, Cheltenham; (2) St Peter’s Church, Dorchester

▶Occupation: Cheltenham

▶Lifestory: Thomas Kingdon (also incorrectly Kingdom) Allen’s first clerical post was at St Luke’s in Cheltenham, where he lived at various addresses inPittville and elsewherein the early 1880s. He was born in London in 1857, the only son of the Revd. Thomas Kingdon Allen, and his wife Louisa, daughter of builder John Phillpot Challenger. He was brought up mainly in Yorkshire, where his father was a vicar. He matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford in 1875, BA 1879, MA 1882, and was ordained Deacon in 1879 (“a literate person”), and Priest (both Gloucester) in 1880.

In 1879 he was licensed Curate of St Luke’s, Cheltenham, and then in 1881 he took up the post of Curate of St Mary’s, Cheltenham’s parish church. In 1883, in Cheltenham, he married Frances Susannah Burton, only daughter of Luke Pearman, of Mercote Hall, Coventry. While in Cheltenham he lived from 1883-6 at 17 Pittville Villas (now 34 Prestbury Road), in the following year at 11 Pittville Parade (now 22 Evesham Road), and in 1888 at 3 Pittville Parade (6 Evesham Road).

Allen remained at St Mary’s until 1888, when he became Rector of St Peter’s, Dorchester. After the death of his wife there in 1890 he remarried, in 1892, to Lucy, only daughter of the Revd. Samuel Nicholson Kingdon, Vicar of Bridgerule, Cornwall. He was also appointed Chaplain of Dorchester Prison in 1895. In 1899 was appointed Vicar of St Andrew the Less, Cambridge, where he became Chaplain of the Cambridge Female Refuge. His second wife also died early, in 1907, and the following year he married Marion Jane Gifford, daughter of engineer Edward Cooper, at Guildford. In 1908 he was appointed Vicar of St Paul’s, Slough, and in 1915 became Rector of Weyhill, near Andover, Hampshire, where he remained until his retirement in 1925; from 1919 until 1925 he served as Rural Dean of Andover.

On his retirement, the Revd. Allen and his wife went to live with his eldest son in Haslemere in Surrey, before removing to Salisbury. Allen died in Salisbury in 1930, at the age of seventy-three, when he lived at 9 The Close in the city, soon after a visit to his son in Haslemere; his estate at death was valued at just over £5,750.

▶Moved to Pittville from: Oxford       Moved from Pittville to: Dorchester

▶Date of death:  15 January 1930      Place of death: Salisbury, Wiltshire

▶Date of burial: 18 January 1930       Place of burial: London Road cemetery, Salisbury, after a service at the Cathedral

▶Notes:        ID: 3915

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden