David Allison (July 3, 1836 – February 13, 1924) was a Canadian professor, administrator and author. He was president both of Mount Allison College and later of

Mount Allison University Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839. Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccal ...

from 1869 to 1878 and from 1891 to 1911, respectively. He was born in

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, the son of

James Whidden Allison James Whidden Allison (December 1, 1795 – March 19, 1867) was a farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Newport township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1836 to 1840. He was born in Horton, Kings County, Nova S ...

and Margaret Elder. He was educated at the Dalhousie Collegiate School (later

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), at the Wesleyan Academy in

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, founded by Charles Frederick Allison, and at

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, from which he received a B.A. in 1859 and an M.A. three years later. Allison married Elizabeth Powell in 1862; she died in 1898. Also in 1862, he became a professor of classics at Mount Allison College. He succeeded Humphrey Pickard as president of the college in 1869. In 1877, Allison was named superintendent of education for

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. He married Ellen Elizabeth Cummins in 1902. Allison developed an English grammar for use in Nova Scotia schools and also wrote a three volume ''History of Nova Scotia'' which was published in 1916. He returned to Mount Allison University in 1891 for his second term as president. He died in Halifax at the age of 87. His brother William Henry served as a member of the Canadian House of Commons.

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External links

* Allison,
''History of Nova Scotia, Vol. 1'' (1916)
* Allison,
''History of Nova Scotia, Vol. 2'' (1916)
* Allison, D & Tuck, C
''History of Nova Scotia, Vol. 3'' (1916)
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