Fergus Hamilton Allen
CB FRSL
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(3 September 1921 – 22 July 2017)
OBITUARY Fergus Allen
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Allen was educated at Newtown School, Waterford
"Waterford remains the untaken city"
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before going up to Trinity College, Dublin
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( MA, MAI, ScD).
References
External links
Debrett's People of Today
Profile and poem at The Poetry Archive
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1921 births
2017 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
Companions of the Order of the Bath