Stafford Allen

Stafford Allen

Abraham Beaumont, Stafford Allen and William Beaumont at the World Anti-Slavery Convention
Born 1806
Witham, Essex, England
Died 14 October 1889 (aged 82–83)
Upper Clapton, England
Nationality British
Occupation industrialist
Known for Abolitionist and philanthropist
Religion Quaker
Spouse(s) Hannah Hunton (born Ransome)
Children yes

Stafford Allen (1806 – 14 October 1889) was a British industrialist, abolitionist, Quaker and philanthropist. He founded the company Stafford Allen and Sons. He supported a number of causes and after fifty years of support he was made a Vice-President of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.

Life

Allen was born in Witham, Essex in 1806. He was the son of two Quakers, Phebe (born Lucas) and Samuel Allen. He married Hannah Hunton Ransome of Ipswich in 1839[1] and they had a large family. Including Francis Allen of Cockley Cley Hall who had business interests in Egypt.[2]

Isaac Crewdson (Beaconite) writer Samuel Jackman Prescod - Barbadian Journalist William Morgan from Birmingham William Forster - Quaker leader George Stacey - Quaker leader William Forster - Anti-Slavery ambassador John Burnet -Abolitionist Speaker William Knibb -Missionary to Jamaica Joseph Ketley from Guyana George Thompson - UK & US abolitionist J. Harfield Tredgold - British South African (secretary) Josiah Forster - Quaker leader Samuel Gurney - the Banker's Banker Sir John Eardley-Wilmot Dr Stephen Lushington - MP and Judge Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton James Gillespie Birney - American John Beaumont George Bradburn - Massachusetts politician George William Alexander - Banker and Treasurer Benjamin Godwin - Baptist activist Vice Admiral Moorson William Taylor William Taylor John Morrison GK Prince Josiah Conder Joseph Soul James Dean (abolitionist) John Keep - Ohio fund raiser Joseph Eaton Joseph Sturge - Organiser from Birmingham James Whitehorne George Bennett Richard Allen Stafford Allen William Leatham, banker William Beaumont Sir Edward Baines - Journalist Samuel Lucas Samuel Fox, Nottingham grocer Louis Celeste Lecesne Jonathan Backhouse Samuel Bowly William Dawes - Ohio fund raiser Robert Kaye Greville - Botanist Joseph Pease, railway pioneer M.M. Isambert (sic) Mary Clarkson -Thomas Clarkson's daughter in law William Tatum Saxe Bannister - Pamphleteer Richard Davis Webb - Irish Nathaniel Colver - American not known John Cropper - Most generous Liverpudlian Thomas Scales William James William Wilson Thomas Swan Edward Steane from Camberwell William Brock Edward Baldwin Jonathon Miller Capt. Charles Stuart from Jamaica Sir John Jeremie - Judge Charles Stovel - Baptist Richard Peek, ex-Sheriff of London John Sturge Elon Galusha Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor Rev. Isaac Bass Henry Sterry Peter Clare -; sec. of Literary & Phil. Soc. Manchester J.H. Johnson Thomas Price Joseph Reynolds Samuel Wheeler William Boultbee Daniel O'Connell - "The Liberator" William Fairbank John Woodmark William Smeal from Glasgow James Carlile - Irish Minister and educationalist Rev. Dr. Thomas Binney John Howard Hinton - Baptist minister John Angell James - clergyman Joseph Cooper Dr. Richard Robert Madden - Irish Thomas Bulley Isaac Hodgson Edward Smith Sir John Bowring - diplomat and linguist John Ellis C. Edwards Lester - American writer Tapper Cadbury - Businessman not known Thomas Pinches David Turnbull - Cuban link Edward Adey Richard Barrett John Steer Henry Tuckett James Mott - American on honeymoon Robert Forster (brother of William and Josiah) Richard Rathbone John Birt Wendell Phillips - American M. L'Instant from Haiti Henry Stanton - American Prof William Adam Mrs Elizabeth Tredgold - British South African T.M. McDonnell Mrs John Beaumont Anne Knight - Feminist Elizabeth Pease - Suffragist Jacob Post - Religious writer Anne Isabella, Lady Byron - mathematician and estranged wife Amelia Opie - Novelist and poet Mrs Rawson - Sheffield campaigner Thomas Clarkson's grandson Thomas Clarkson Thomas Morgan Thomas Clarkson - main speaker George Head Head - Banker from Carlisle William Allen John Scoble Henry Beckford - emancipated slave and abolitionist Use your cursor to explore (or Click "i" to enlarge)
1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention.[1] Move your cursor to identify delegates or click the icon to enlarge. Allen is in the top left quarter.
  1. ^ The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1841, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG599, Given by British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1880

He started a pharmacy company named Stafford Allen and sons in 1833 which created large profits. The company created a wide range of products but specialised in derivatives from Cedar wood and cloves.[3] Allen also possessed an iron foundry but this was of secondary interest. His business interests initially involved his brother George and another partner called George May.[1]

In 1840 he attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention at Exeter Hall in London.[4] This convention was organised by Joseph Sturge and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Allen was one of the patron's of this organisation.[3] When the commemorative picture was painted the major delegates were included in the painting including several bankers, Richard Tapper Cadbury and Stafford Allen.[5]

Allen continued to get involved with the condition of the slaves after they were freed. After many years of remote support he visited the United States to see the conditions that the freed people of the United States faced following the end of their civil war.[1] In the same year Harriet Jacobs who was a former slave and activist visited Britain to raise funds for orphans and freed, but poverty stricken, people in Savannah, Georgia. Jacobs published her appeal for funds in the Anti-Slavery Reporter and asked for them to be sent to Clementia Taylor, Robert Alsop or Stafford Allen.[6]

Bush Boakes Allen was a company formed from Stafford Allen and Sons

Allen was involved in more philanthropy during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Allen sat on a committee of the Society of Friends (Quakers) who tried to mitigate the suffering. The committee sent assistance including medicines donates by Allen's company.[3] In the same year he visited Egypt and Palestine.[1]

Allen's wife died in 1880. After fifty years of support he was made a Vice-President of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.[1] He died in Parkfield, Upper Clapton in October 1889.[7]

Legacy

Stafford Allen and Sons became part of the company Bush, Broake Allen which was acquired by International Flavors and Fragrances in 2000.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Green, Joseph Joshua (1890). The Annual Monitor for or Obituary of the Members of the Society, 1890. London. pp. 6–7.
  2. ↑ The County Families of the UK, page 46, retrieved 28 August 2015
  3. 1 2 3 4 Junius P. Rodriguez (26 March 2015). Encyclopaedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World. Routledge. pp. 20–21. ISBN 978-1-317-47180-6.
  4. ↑ BFASS Convention 1840, List of delegates, Retrieved 29 August 2015
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ Kathryn Kish Sklar; James Brewer Stewart (2007). Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation. Yale University Press. pp. 170–174. ISBN 0-300-13786-9.
  7. ↑ Chemist and Druggist: The Newsweekly for Pharmacy. Benn Brothers. 1889.
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