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st. Aberdeen, she _d._ 30 Aug. 1820 aged 23). Found dead in his bed at Ury 1 May 1854. _bur._ in family burying ground called the Houff, which contains an account of the family from year 1110. _H. H. Dixon’s Field and fern (North)_ 1865 _pp._ 196–210; _Pugilistica by H. D. Miles i_, 435–39 (1880), _portrait_; _Pedestrianism_ [_by Walter Thom_] _Aberdeen_ 1813, _portrait_; _The eccentric mag. i_, 133–50 (1812), _portrait_. NOTE.—The coach called the Defiance (of which he was one of the 5 proprietors) ran from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and was the fastest and best conducted coach in the United Kingdom, it performed the journey 126 miles in 12 hours; it ran its first journey 1 July 1829 and its last Oct. 1849. The 1000 mile feat has never been performed by any other man, although many persons are _stated_ to have done it. ALLASON, THOMAS. _b._ London 31 July 1790; architect in London 1817; employed in landscape gardening; a comr. of Board of Metropolitan Sewers; author of _Picturesque views of the antiquities of Pola in Istria_ 1819. _d._ 9 April 1852. ALLCROFT, JEREMIAH MACKLIN. _b._ 1791; partner in firm of Dent, Allcroft and Co. of Wood st. London and Worcester, glovers; chamberlain of Worcester 1832–33. _d._ Worcester 6 July 1867. ALLEN, CHARLES, calling himself Charles Edward Lewis Casimir Stuart, Count d’Albanie (_only son of Charles Manning Allen 1799–1880_). Col. in the Austrian army. (_m._ 15 May 1874 Alice Mary Emily 3 and youngest dau. of the 17 Earl of Errol, she was _b._ 7 July 1835 and _d._ 7 June 1881.) _d._ 8 May 1882 aged 57, thus ending this dynasty of modern pretenders. ALLEN, CHARLES. _b._ 1808; a member of Financial council, Calcutta; alderman of Tenby; mayor 2 or 3 times; sheriff of co. Pembroke