Background
Carleton Allen, or "C.K." as he came to be known, was born in Carlton, Victoria, the third son of William Allen, a Congregational minister and the younger brother of Leslie Holdsworth Allen.
professor Warden of Rhodes House
Carleton Allen, or "C.K." as he came to be known, was born in Carlton, Victoria, the third son of William Allen, a Congregational minister and the younger brother of Leslie Holdsworth Allen.
He was three when his family moved to Sydney, where he attended Newington College (1900–1906). At the University of Sydney he read classics and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1910.
He took first-class honours in 1912 and was elected Eldon Law Scholar in 1913. At the end of the war, he was elected Stowell Civil Law Fellow of University College, Oxford and he remained a fellow of that college until his death. In 1926, he spent a year as Tagore professor at the University of Calcutta and published his lectures from that time as Law in the Making in 1927.
This compilation became an established classic and he completed a seventh edition in 1965.
In 1929 he was appointed professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, but in 1931 became the second warden of Rhodes House. Dorothy Allen"s memoirs, Sunlight and Shadow (1960) (which Allen brought to publication after her death), give an account of life at Rhodes House.
On his retirement in 1952 he was knighted. A portrait of Sir Carleton Allen hangs in Rhodes House, Oxford, and images of him are held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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