John Allen (1771–1839) was an English dissenting layman and religious writer.
Life and work
Allen was born at
Truro
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in 1771 and educated there by a Dr Cardue. He afterwards kept an academy, the Madras House
grammar school
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, for 30 years in
Hackney, where he died on 17 June 1839.
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Allen's major work, first published in 1816, was ''Modern Judaism; or a Brief Account of the Opinions, Traditions, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Jews in Modern Times'' (i. e. since the Christian era). It was reprinted in 1830. He also published:
*''The Fathers, the Reformers, and the Public Formularies of the Church of England in Harmony with Calvin and against the Bishop of Lincoln'' (1812 anonymously)
*''Memoirs of Major-General Burn'', 1815, on
Andrew Burn
Andrew Ewbank Burn (17 January 1864 – 28 November 1927) was an English clergyman in the Church of England, Dean of Salisbury from 1920 until his death in 1927.
Born in Bareilly on 17 January 1864 and educated at Charterhouse and Trinity Col ...
*A translation of
Calvin's ''Institutes''
*Some sermons of
Danirel de Superville, 1816
*''Two Dissertations on Sacrifices'' from the Latin of
William Owtram.
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1771 births
1839 deaths
English religious writers
English male non-fiction writers