Allen, Cardinal. See Allan.
Allen, David Oliver, D.D., a Congregational minister and missionary, was born in 1800 at Barre, Mass. He graduated at Amherst College in 1823, studied theology in Andover Theological Seminary, .1824-27, went, with his wife, as missionary to India in 1827. In 1844 he took charge of the printing estab- lishment in Bombay, employing at that time one hun- dred persons. He published several tracts in the Mah- ratta language, and superintended a revised and cor- rected edition of the whole Scriptures in that language. He returned, on account of enfeebled health, to Amer- ica in June, 1853, and published in 1856 a ^History of India, Ancient and Modern." He was a member of the " Royal Asiatic Society" and the " American Oriental Society." He died in Lowell, July 17, 1863.
Allen, Henry. See Allenites.
Allen, James, a Puritan minister, was born in England in 1632. He was a fellow of New College, Oxford, but was ejected for non-conformity in 1662, came to America, and was ordained teacher of the First Church, Boston, December 9, 1668, as colleague with Mr. Davenport, who was at the same time or- dained pastor. He served this church for forty years with dignity and industry, but without remarkable suc- cess. Several of his occasional sermons were printed. He died September 22, 1710.— Sprague, Annals, i, 163.
Allen, John, one of the early ministers of Massa- chusetts, was born in England in 1596, and was driven from his native land during the persecution of the Pu- ritans. Removing to New England, he was settled pastor of the church at Dedham, April 24, 1639, where he continued till his death, August 26, 1671. He was a man of considerable distinction in his day. He pul>- lished a defence of the nine positions, in which, with Mr. Shepard of Cambridge, he discusess the points of Church discipline, and a defence of tho synod of 1662, against Mr. Chauncy, under the title of Animadver- sions upon the Antisynodalia (4to, 16ii4). — Allen, Bio- graphical Diet. s. v. ; Allibone, Diet, of Authors, i, 53.
Allen, John, chancellor of Ireland, was born in 1476, was educated at Oxford, and took his bachelor's degree at Cambridge. He soon obtained several ben- efices, and was sent by Archbishop Warham to Rome on ecclesiastical affairs; he spent nine years there, and, on his return, "Wolsey made him his chaplain. He was made archbishop of Dublin in 1528, and soon after chancellor. He was an active assistant of Car- dinal Wolsey in the spoliation of the religious houses, and was a learned canonist. Allen was murdered by Thomas Fitzgerald, son of the earl of Kildare, July 28, 1534, and his death was regarded by the people as a di- vine judgment upon him for having been instrumental in the destruction of forty monasteries. He wrote Epist. de Pallii Signification, and other pieces relating to ecclesiastical subjects. — Biog. Univ. torn, i, p. 590 ; Rose, Biog. Dictionary- Landon, Eccles. Diet. s. v.; Wood, Atheiue Oxonienscs.
Allen, John, a learned layman, was born at Truro, in Cornwall, England, in 1771, and conducted for up- ward of thirty years a private school in London, where he died in 1839. He published a work on Modem Judaism (8vo, London, 1816 and 1830). Bickersteth calls it the best work on the subject in the English language. In 1813 he published a translation of Cal- i vin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, which has con- 1 turned to be the standard English version of that great i work, though it may now, perhaps (1862), be super- I seded by Beveridge's new translation. Allen's edition of the Institutes was reprinted at New York (1819, 4to), and often since in 2 vols. 8vo, in which form it is is- sued by the Presbyterian Board of Publication, Phila- delphia.— Darling, Cyclopcedia Bibliographica, i, 49 ; Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 53.
Allen, John, was pastor of a Baptist eongrega- i tion at Spitalfields, 1764 to 1767. Engaging in busi- I ness, he became involved in difficulties, was tried for forgery, and was acquitted. He subsequently went | to New York, and had some reputation as a preacher ; there until his death. He published The Sjriritual Magazine, or the Christian' s Grand Treasure, wherein the Doctrines of the Bible are unfolded (Lond. 1752 ; re- printed, with preface by Romaine, Lond. 1810, 3 vols. 8vo) ; Chain of Truth, a dissertation on the Harmony , of the Gospels (1764). — Wilson, Dissenting Churches, j iv, 426 ; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliographica, i, 49. ! Allen, Moses, a minister of the Protestant Epis- copal Church, was born in Northampton, Massachu- setts, September 14, 1748. He was educated at Prince- ton, where he graduated in 1772. He was ordained at Christ's Church parish, about twenty miles from Charleston, S. C, March 26, 1775. In 1777 he re- moved to Midway, Georgia. The British arm}' from ' Florida, under General Prevost, dispersed his society I in 1778, and burned the church, almost every dwell- ing-house, and the crops of rice then in stacks. In | December he was taken prisoner by the British, and i treated with great severity. Seeing no prospect of release from the prison-ship where he was confined, , he determined to attempt the recover}' of his liberty by jumping overboard and swimming to an adjacent point; but he was drowned in the attempt, February i 8, 1779. — Allen, Biog. Dictionary, s. v.