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Allardyce was the son of James Allardyce, farmer, born on 21 January 1846 at Tilly-minit, Gartly, parish of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire.
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Allardyce was the son of James Allardyce, farmer, born on 21 January 1846 at Tilly-minit, Gartly, parish of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire.
Receiving his first lessons in Latin from his maternal grandmother), he was educated at Rhynie parish school, Aberdeen Grammar School, and the University of Aberdeen.
Lord Mayo appreciated him so highly that he offered him an assistant-commissionership, but he kept to journalism. In 1875 he succeeded John Capper as editor of the Ceylon Times, and one of his early experiences of office was tendering an apology to the judicial bench for contempt. Returning to Europe, Allardyce was for a time at Berlin and afterwards in London, where he wrote for Fraser"s Magazine, The Spectator, and other periodicals.
In 1877 he settled at Edinburgh as reader to the house of Messrs.
He died at Portobello on 23 April 1896, and was buried in Rhynie parish churchyard, Aberdeenshire. There were no children.
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