Also known as
C. H. Allan,
Chas. H. Allen,
Charles Harris Allen
Artist (Painter)
Colonial male watercolourist who travelled around South Australia and Queensland in 1868 as part of a world tour. Allen painted landscapes as he went and on returning to London wrote an unillustrated memoir about the Queensland goldfields.
Underwriter, traveller, Secretary and Hon Secretary, Anti-Slavery Society, London, 1879 -1902 c.1861 - 1902 London, England, UK
Birth date
13 April 1824
Birth place
Great Coggelshall, Essex, , England
Death date
19 December 1904
Death place
17 Well Walk, Hampstead, London, England
Arrival
c.1868 (arrived Australia 19 April 1868 according to his comment in a paper 'The goldfields of Australia' given to the Ordinary General Meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute, England, 19 April 1869 )
World Cat, Library of Congress, name authority file, Ancestry com information has established that the author Chas. H. Allen, F.R.G.S. of the A visit to Queensland and her goldfields, London 1870 is the same person. -
24/06/2012 21:32
by
newtog
(moderator approved)