Gerald Allen

This article is about the scholar, priest and bishop. For the politician, see Gerald Allen (politician). For the ichthyologist, see Gerald R. Allen.

Gerald Burton Allen (1885–1956) was a British scholar and a Church of England priest and bishop.

Life

Allen was born into a clerical family, being the eldest son of The Reverend T.K. Allen, sometime Vicar of Weyhill.^[1] He was educated at Cheltenham College, later serving as a member of the College Council (1923–51) and President of the College (1939–51).^[1] He was a scholar of Wadham College, Oxford, earning first-class honours in the Final Honour School of Theology in 1908, and in 1910 being elected Denyer and Johnson Theological Scholar and receiving the Ellerton Essay Prize. He studied briefly at Wells Theological College in 1908 and was ordained deacon the same year, when he had just satisfied the canonical requirement for candidates for ordination to have attained twenty-three years of age. Both his youth and the brevity of his training were quite normal at the time.

His first appointment was as Chaplain to Wadham (1908–10)^[1] and he was ordained priest in 1909. From 1910 until 1920 he was Fellow, Dean, and Chaplain of Pembroke College (Honorary Fellow 1934).^[2] He was Temporary Chaplain to the Forces 1917-18 and Chaplain to the Royal Air Force 1918-19. In 1920 he returned to Oxford as Senior Proctor (1920–21) and Principal of St Edmund Hall (1920–28; Honorary Fellow 1942), assuming office at the age of just thirty-five.^[3] From 1923 until 1928 he was a member of the Hebdomadal Council of the University of Oxford.

From 1928 until 1936 he was the second Bishop of Sherborne.^[4] He returned to Oxford in 1936, where he was Archdeacon of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church until 1952. He was also Assistant Bishop of Oxford 1936-39 and served as the first modern Bishop of Dorchester 1939-52.

A man with the widest sympathies and the most excellent personal relations,^[5] he resigned in 1952 and died in retirement at Cheltenham four years later.

Notes

1 2 3 Who was Who
↑ The Times (1910)
↑ The Times (1951)
↑ The Times (1936)
↑ The Times (1956)

References

The Times (1910) "University Intelligence: The University Endowment Fund Thursday", 19 May (39276), p. 3 (col. 'C')
The Times (1936) "Ecclesiastical News", 21 August (47459), p. 13 (col. 'G')
The Times (1951) "St Edmund Hall, Oxford: Institution of New Principal", 13 October (52131), p. 8 (col. 'F')
The Times (1956) "Dr. G. B. Allen Former Bishop Of Dorchester", 29 March (53492), p. 14 (col. 'D')
Who was Who (1991) Who was who. A cumulated index 1897-1990, CD-ROM, London : A & C Black, ISBN 0-7136-3457-X

Church of England titles
Preceded by Robert Crowther Abbott	Bishop of Sherborne 1928 – 1936	Succeeded by John Maurice Key
Preceded by Inaugural appointment	Bishop of Dorchester 1939 – 1952	Succeeded by Kenneth Riches

Bishops of Sherborne

Medieval diocesans	Saint Aldhelm Forthhere Herewald Æthelmod Denefrith Wigberht Eahlstan Saint Heahmund Æthelheah Wulfsige Asser Æthelweard Wærstan Æthelbald Sigehelm Alfred Wulfsige II Ælfwold I Æthelsige I Wulfsige III Æthelric Æthelsige II Brithwine I Ælfmaer Brihtwine II Saint Ælfwold II Herman see merged with Ramsbury and removed to Old Sarum

Modern suffragans	Robert Abbott Gerald Allen Harold Rodgers Maurice Key Victor Pike John Kirkham (became first area bishop) see area bishops Graham Kings (previously last area bishop) Karen Gorham (designate)

Modern area bishops	John Kirkham Tim Thornton Graham Kings

Bishops of Dorchester (Medieval and modern)

Wessex diocese	Birinus Agilbert Ætla

Mercian diocese	Harlardus Wigmund Coenwulf Wynsige Æthelwold Oscytel

United diocese	Leofwine Alnothus Æscwig Ælfhelm Eadnoth the Younger Æthelric Eadnoth (II) Ulfus Normanus Wulfwig Remigius de Fécamp

Oxford suffragan	Gerald Allen Kenneth Riches David Loveday Peter Walker Conrad Meyer (became first area bishop)

Oxford area bishops	Conrad Meyer Anthony Russell Colin Fletcher

Archdeacons of Oxford and of Dorchester

High Medieval	Alfred Walter of Oxford Robert Foliot Walter de Coutances John of Coutances Walter Map John of Tynemouth Matthew Stratton Adam de Sancto Edmundo Roger Weseham John de Sancto Egidio Richard of Gravesend Robert de Mariscis Henry of Sandwich Richard de Mepham John de Maidenstan W. Nicholas de Hegham Simon of Ghent Pontius de Salino Amadeus of Savoy William de Sardene

Late Medieval	Gilbert Segrave Gaillard Cardinal de la Motte Thomas Southam John Southam Fulk Birmingham John Boteler Lionel Woodville Oliver King Richard Mayew Christopher Urswick George Heneage Nicholas Wilson Richard Coren

Early modern	Walter Wright John Kennall John Drewry/Drury William Bridges Barten Holyday Thomas Lamplugh Thomas Barlow Timothy Halton Humphrey Hody Timothy Goodwin William Baker Robert Cook George Rye John Potter Thomas Randolph George Turner Phineas Pett Charles Clerke

Late modern	Edwin Palmer Leslie Randall, Bishop of Reading Thomas Archer Houblon Edward Shaw, assistant bishop Gerald Allen, assistant bishop/Bishop of Dorchester Carlyle Witton-Davies Frank Weston John Morrison Julian Hubbard Hedley Ringrose (Acting) Judy French, assistant archdeacon Martin Gorick

Dorchester	Hedley Ringrose (Interim) Judy French

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