Thomas Allin (Anglican)

For other people named Thomas Allin, see Thomas Allin (disambiguation).

Thomas Allin (1838–1909) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman, a writer on Universalism, also known for botanical research.

Life

He was born at Midleton, County Cork, Ireland. He graduated B.A. at Trinity College, Dublin in 1859, and took orders in the Church of Ireland. After a succession of curacies, he left for England in 1877.[1][2]

Works

  • rewritten by Mark T Chamberlain, "Every Knee Shall Bow", privately published.

In his activity as naturalist he had Isaac Carroll (1828–1880) as collaborator.[4] His surveys resulted in The Flowering Plants and Ferns of the County Cork (1883)[5]

References

  1. [http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/coleschurchandparishrecords/colesrecordsindex/index_297_316.pdf Cole's Church and Parish Records (PDF), p. 1.
  2. Some Irish Naturalists
  3. The Literary World; 1900 "Dr. Thomas Allin has explained this age-long religious strife between East and West as the outcome of deeper underlying ... Latinism went one way and Hellenism another, and the Catholic Church, one and indivisible, took divergent paths, ..."
  4. Flora of County Waterford page
  5. At Google Books.

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