Background
He was born at York, the son of Doctor Colin Allan, at one time chief medical officer of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Peter Allan
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His short life was mainly spent there and at Fredericton in New Brunswick, where his family moved on his father"s retirement in 1836. Foreign a time Allan studied law, but after the success of some published poems began to write full-time. Before his first book of verse was printed, he went down with fever, and died, after a brief illness, at the age of 23.
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October 21, 1848 (aged 23) -
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United Kingdom