John Allen (priest)

The Very. Rev John Edward Allen, MA was an eminent Anglican priest in the latter part of the 20th century.^[1] He was born into an ecclesiastical family ^[2] on 9 June 1932 and educated at Rugby and University College, Oxford.^[3] He was in the Colonial Service in Kenya from 1957 to 1963; and then in Sales and Marketing with Kimberly-Clark until 1966. Ordained in 1968 ^[4] he was initially a Curate at Deal and then Vicar of St Paul’s, Clifton. He was then the incumbent at Chippenham until 1982 when he became Provost of Wakefield, a post he held until 1997.

References

1. ↑ pharmweb
2. ↑ His father was the Rev. Canon Ronald Edward Taylor Allen, sometime Vicar of Edgbaston Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
3. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
4. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House 1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X