Background
Allen was born in Oxford 25 December 1681, and educated at New College school and Wadham, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts on 2 July 1705.
Allen was born in Oxford 25 December 1681, and educated at New College school and Wadham, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts on 2 July 1705.
He was for a time a clerk in Lincoln"s Inn. Then became a schoolmaster. Was ordained in 1705.
In February 1706 he became vicar of Irchester, Northamptonshire, which he resigned in 1715 to take the less valuable rectory of Kettering.
Allen died, while reading prayers, 31 May 1755.