Allen

Allen, CHARLES GRANT, born at Kingston, Canada, Feb. 24, 1848, graduated in 1870 from Merton College, Oxford. In 1873-77 he was first professor, then principal, of a college at Spanish Town in Jamaica, and afterwards settled in England. He wrote Physiological Aesthetics (1877); Colour Sense; The Evolutionist at Large; Vignettes from Nature; Flowers and their Pedigrees; The Evolution of the Idea of God (1897); Darwin (1885); Force and Energy (1888), besides a long series of novels, including Philistia (1884), Babylon, In All Shades, A Terrible Inheritance, This Mortal Coil, and The Great Taboo (1890). The Woman who Did (1895), a novel with a purpose, evoked a storm of controversy. He wrote much for the periodicals and contributed to this Encyclopedia. He died at Hyndhead, 25th October 1899. See Life by E. Clodd (1900).