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William Allen died on 30 December 1843 and was buried in Stoke Newington, London, in the grounds of the Yoakley Road Quaker Meeting House. Today this has been replaced by a Seventh-Day Adventist chapel, the other half of its grounds becoming a small Council-maintained park for the nearby public housing estate.
William Allen. 1770 – 1843. William was the eldest son of Quakers Job and Margaret Allen, who built up a prosperous silk manufacturing business in Spitalfields in London. He showed an early aptitude for science, and was especially interested in astronomy and chemistry. In 1792 he joined the Plough Court pharmacy, run by Quaker Joseph Bevan.
Punishment of Death and the Improvement of Prison Discipline was founded by William Allen and Basil Montagu.8 Allen, the Quaker philanthropist, and Montagu, a close friend of Romilly, had both been impressed by the success of the Philadelphia Society9 as well as that of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave 4.
Sep 30, 2022 · William Allen, an English chemist and Quaker, died Sep. 30, 1843, at the age of 73. Allen came from a well-to-do manufacturing family, so he was free to follow his interests, which happened to be science, especially chemistry.
William Allen died at Lindfield on 30th December 1843 and was buried in the Quaker burial-ground, Stoke Newington.
William Allen died on 30 December 1843 and was buried in Stoke Newington, London, in the grounds of the Yoakley Road Quaker Meeting House. Today this has been replaced by a Seventh-Day Adventist chapel, the other half of its grounds becoming a small Council-maintained park for the nearby public housing estate.
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William Allen was a remarkably active and inspiring Quaker. The panel shows some of his wide-ranging scientific, religious, social, educational and philanthropic interests – everything from giving Royal Institution Lectures to praying with the Czar.
