Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

ALLEN, CHARLES MANNING, calling himself Charles Edward Stuart, Count d’Albanie (_younger son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851, by Katharine Matilda dau. of Rev. Owen Manning, V. of Godalming, Surrey. T. G. Allen called himself James Stuart, Count d’Albanie and affirmed that he was son of Charles Stuart the young Pretender by the Princess Louisa of Stolberg-Gädern_). _b._ Versailles 4 June 1799; served in advanced guard of Napoleon’s army at Waterloo; assumed Christian name of Stuart 1822; changed his name to Allan-Hay; changed again to Stuart; lived with his brother John at Edin. then at Glasgow then at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness; author with his brother John of _The costume of the clans_ 1845; _Tales of the century_ 1847; _Lays of the deer forest_, _2 vols._