John Allen (1771–1839) was an English dissenting layman and religious writer.
Life and work
Allen was born at
Truro
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in 1771 and educated there by a Dr Cardue. He afterwards kept an academy, the Madras House
grammar school
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, for 30 years in
Hackney, where he died on 17 June 1839.
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Allen's major work, first published in 1816, was ''Modern Judaism; or a Brief Account of the Opinions, Traditions, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Jews in Modern Times'' (i. e. since the Christian era). It was reprinted in 1830. He also published:
*''The Fathers, the Reformers, and the Public Formularies of the Church of England in Harmony with Calvin and against the Bishop of Lincoln'' (1812 anonymously)
*''Memoirs of Major-General Burn'', 1815, on
Andrew Burn
*A translation of
Calvin's ''Institutes''
*Some sermons of
Danirel de Superville, 1816
*''Two Dissertations on Sacrifices'' from the Latin of
William Owtram.
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1771 births
1839 deaths
English religious writers
English male non-fiction writers