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Allan was born on November 12, 1837, at Winchester Gardens, near Winchester, one of two children, both sons, of Thomas Allan and Jane Dowdell George Allan. After being educated in a local private school, he taught in Jefferson County and in Winchester to earn enough money to enroll in the University of Virginia in 1857. Allan excelled at debate and graduated with honors in 1860 with an MA in applied arithmetic. He moved to Loudoun County where he was assistant to the principal of Bloomfield Academy when the Civil War began.
Allan enlisted in the Confederate army and served as a clerk in the quartermaster department under Stonewall Jackson. In 1862, sponsored by University of Virginia classmate Alexander “Sandie” Pendleton, Allan took the ordnance officer examination. He passed with the highest score and on December 27, 1862, became a captain of artillery. On January 19, 1863, he was appointed to Jackson’s staff as chief of ordnance of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. He served throughout the war, advancing to the rank of major on April 25, 1863, and lieutenant colonel on March 28, 1864. He was assigned to Jubal Early’s Shenandoah Valley command on March 1, 1865.
After the war Allan took a job as cashier of the National Valley Bank in Staun
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William Allen was born in 1532 in Rossal Grange, Lancashire, England. He was the third son of John Allen and Jane Lister. He was educated at home until he was fifteen, when he entered Oriel College, Oxford. By 1550 he had a B.A. and was a fellow of his college, and in 1554 he completed his M.A.
In 1556 Allen was chosen as principal of St Mary’s Hall, Oxford and Proctor of the university. In 1558 he became a canon of the cathedral chapter of York, even though he was still a layman, but had decided to enter the ecclesiastical state. Allen’s zeal and loyalty to the Roman Catholic Church meant that he had to resign all his posts at Oxford at the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558, and he went to Louvain, Flanders in 1561. The following year he returned home in very delicate health and remained there for three years, when he then left England forever.
Later in 1565 Allen was ordained to the priesthood at Mechlin. Here he lectured in theology in the Benedictine college. Whilst there he conceived the idea of a college for English students on the Continent, and in 1568 opened the first and most famous of such institutions, at Douai, Flanders. In 1570, he was created a Doctor of Divinity and appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at the college, which he continued to administer
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William Allen
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