Background
Percy Stafford Allen - born 7 July 1869 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, ( son of Joseph Allen 1825-1901 & Mary Mason SATOW 1842-1892 ) he received his early education in Rottingdean.
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Percy Allen
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Education
From 1882, he studied Latin and Greek at Clifton College and after 1888 at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Career
One of his Oxford tutors was the historian and biographer James Anthony Froude In 1892 he received his Bachelor, and his Master of Arts in 1896. From 1897 to 1901 he taught history at Government College in Lahore, British India (modern Pakistan). He returned to Oxford in 1908 as a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
From 1924 to 1933 he was president of Corpus Christi College.
Allen is best known as the editor of the complete letters of Erasmus of Rotterdam, a twelve volume work. Among other writings, he also published The Age of Erasmus: Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford and London (1914) and Letters of Richard Fox 1486-1527(1929).
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United Kingdom