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ALEXANDER, ROBERT; b. 13 Oct 1792; adm. 4 Oct 1808; left Bartholomewtide 1809; served Royal Navy 1810-8; Cadet, EICS Madras 26 Mar 1819; Ensign, 24th Madras Native Infantry 12 Jun 1819; Lieut. 13 Jun 1819; Capt. 11 Oct 1826; Maj. 5 Mar 1836; Lieut. -Col. 23 Jan 1841; Lieut. -Col., 2nd Madras Native Infantry 3 Sep 1847; Brevet Col. 17 Mar 1851; Col. 16 Aug 1851; Maj. -Gen. 28 Nov 1854; Lieut. -Gen. 22 Aug 1865; Gen. 25 Jun 1870; m. 27 Apr 1831 Charlotte, dau. of Maj. Josiah Stewart, EICS Madras, Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad; d. 16 May 1879. [Perhaps Robert Alexander, bapt. Uphall, West Lothian 14 Oct 1792, son of William Alexander, and Mary --- (IGI)]

ALFORD, MELCHIZEDEK, son of William Alford, Lyme Regis, Dorset; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1641, matr. 10 Dec 1641, aged 18, Westminster Student; BA 1648; expelled from his studentship by the Parliamentary Visitors 9 Nov 1648 for being “absent divers yeares and never appearinge to do any exercise” (Burrows, 212); treasurer to the Royalist garrison at Exeter during its siege by Parliament, and was “imployed in carrying letters and other messages to the King at Oxford and elsewhere” (Walker, Sufferings, pt. ii, 109); ordained 1653; Curate, Dunsford, Devon 1656; Curate, Culmstock, Devon 16 Mar 1658/9; Vicar of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, from 20 Mar 1661; m. 18 Dec 1650 Elizabeth, only child of Richard Channon, Escot, Ottery St. Mary, Devon; buried Ottery St. Mary, Devon 10 Aug 1689.

ALINGTON, HILDEBRAND, elder son of William Alington, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, and Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Winford and niece of Sir Thomas Cookes Winford, Kt, Glasshampton, Worcs., founder of Worcester Coll. Oxford; bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 15 Feb 1708 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Apr 1719; in under school list 1722; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1727; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Apr 1720, called to bar 4 May 1732; d. unm. 12 Sep 1755.

ALLANSON, GEORGE, second son of George Allanson, Adlington, Lancs., and Dorothy, dau. of John Sudell, Langton, Lancs.; bapt. St. Bride, Fleet Street, London 21 Sep 1693 (IGI); adm.; QS (aged 15) 1708; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1713, matr. 23 Jun 1713, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1713 – void 27 Jul 1728 (expiry year of grace as R. St. Tudy); BA 1717; MA 1720; adm. Middle Temple 11 Jun 1713; ordained; Rector of St. Tudy, Cornwall 1727; Vicar of St. Gluvias, Cornwall 1730 (dispensation to hold with St. Tudy, 1730); Prebendary of Exeter 23 Apr 1730; Archdeacon of Cornwall from 14 Sep 1737; m. 22 Feb 1732 Mary, sister of Charles Trelawny (qv); d. 20 Aug 1741.

ALLEN, CHARLES HOLT BRACEBRIDGE (BAKEWELL), son of George Charles Allen LLD, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, barrister, and Georgina --- (IGI); b. 11 Aug 1843; adm. 30 Sep 1859; left Aug 1861; d. 28 Nov 1916.

Allen, Ernest Vivian, son of Henry Ebenezer Allen, Registrar of the General Medical Council, and Clerk of Convocation, London University, by Emily, daughter of Frederick Webb, of Sulby Manor, Isle of Man; b. Feb. 18, 1876; adm. Sept. 1889 (A); left Dec. 1892; Director of the Tabard Inn Library, Limited, Mortimer Street, London; served chiefly in France 1914-8; Major Machine Gun Corps Feb. 16, 1918; m. March 4, 1930, Lola, second daughter of Arthur Carey, of Galeacre, Lancs.

ALLEN, HENRY; b.; adm.; BB Mich 1638 – Mich. 1640 (WAM 34165). [perhaps Henry Allen, son of Bartholomew Allen, bapt. Westminster Abbey 9 May 1627]

Allen, Ian Mackenzie Stirling, son of Ernest Stirling Allen, solicitor, and Elsie Mackenzie, d. of Brig.-Surgn William Mackenzie Skues; b. 27 July 1919; adm. Jan. 1933 (B); left Dec. 1935; Poitiers Univ. 1937; Roy. Acad. of Music 1947-50; LRAM, BMus (Lond.), ARCM; a profes­sional accompanist, teacher, composer, lecturer and writer on music under the name of Ian Stirling; m. Monique Bret.

Allen, John Willoughby Tarleton, son of Rev. Roland Allen, Vicar of Chalfont St Peter, Bucks, and Mary Beatrice, d. of Admiral Sir John Walter Tarleton KCB; b. 14 Nov. 1904; adm. from Marlborough Coll. Sept. 1920 (A); left July 1923; St John's Coll. Oxf., matric. 1923, BA 1929, MA 1932; Superintendent of Education Tanganyika Territory 1929, asst DO 1937, DO 1942; Political Officer Aden 1947, Dep. Brit. Agent Western Aden Protectorate 1948; DO Tanganyika 1953-4; Warden Univ. Hall Makerere Coll. Kampala 1958; res. Fellow in Swahili, Univ. Coll. of Dar-es-Salaam 1965; author of various works on the Swahili language; m. 29 Sept. 1930 Winifred Ethel Emma, d. of Hubert Brooke of Mexico City; d. 6 Apr. 1979.

ALLEN, JOHN, brother of William Allen (adm. 1814, qv); b. 25 May 1810; adm. 4 Oct 1823; KS 1824; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1828, adm. pens. 16 May 1828, scholar 1829, matr. Mich. 1828; BA 1832; MA 1835; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1833, priest 21 Dec 1834 (both London); mathematical lecturer, King’s Coll. London 1832-9, chaplain 1833-46; one of the three original Inspectors of Schools 1839-46; Vicar of Prees, Shropshire 1846-83; Prebendary of Lichfield 1848-59; Archdeacon of Salop 1847-86; Master of St. John’s Hospital, Lichfield, from 8 July 1883; edited Cudworth’s Treatise of Freewill, 1838; m. 31 Jul 1834 Harriet, dau. of James White Higgins, Hormead Bury, Herts., land surveyor; d. 13 Dec 1886.