Fergus Hamilton Allen CB

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(3 September 1921 – 22 July 2017)OBITUARY Fergus Allen
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. Allen was educated at Newtown School,

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before going up to

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( MA, MAI, ScD).

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Debrett's People of TodayProfile and poem at The Poetry Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Fergus 1921 births 2017 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Companions of the Order of the Bath