Background
Allen was born in Betchworth, Surrey, and was taken to Victoria in 1852.
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William Allen
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He was educated at the Scotch and Congregational colleges in Melbourne, and matriculated at the Melbourne University in 1869.
Career
Since 1871 Mr. Allen has written for the religious press He was Chairman of the "Congregational Union and Mission of Victoria" in 1886 and 1886, and in the latter year published "Random Rhymes." Mr. Allen gained the first prize for the cantata which he composed for the opening of the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition in 1888.
Allen was the father to Leslie Holdsworth Allen, the academic and poet, and Sir Carleton Allen, professor and Warden of Rhodes House, University of Oxford.
