Sir Stephen Shepherd Allen (2 August 1882 – 4 November 1964) was a New Zealand lawyer, farmer, colonial administrator, local-body politician, and mayor of

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. Allen was the son of

William Shepherd Allen William Shepherd Allen (22 June 1831 – 15 January 1915) was an English Liberal politician. He also worked as a farmer and served as an MP in New Zealand. Biography Allen was born at Manchester, the son of William Allen and his wife Maria Shep ...

, an MP in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand. His mother was Elizabeth Penelope Candlish, daughter of

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. His brother

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was an MP in England. He served in

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, being appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1919 King's Birthday Honours, and in the Territorial Army, and was Administrator of the colony of Western Samoa (now

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) from 1928 to 1931. His rule of Samoa was marked by the attempted suppression of the

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- culminating on 29 December 1929 with the "Black Saturday" killing of eleven non-violent protesters, including the Mau leader,

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. Allen was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1933 King's Birthday Honours. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal. On 4 November 1964, Allen suffered a heart attack while driving near

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, and both he and his housekeeper, Elma Jessie Brunton, died in the resulting crash.

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