William Allen 1770 – 1843
May 02, 2010
William
Allen
FRS,
FLS 1770 –
1843 was an English scientist, philanthropist and antislavery
campaigner,
Member of The
Chemical Society,
Fellow of the
Linnean Society, Fellow of
the Royal Society,
Founder of
the pharmaceutical company Allen &
Hanburys,
co-founder
and first
President of
the The Royal Pharmaceutical Society,
co-founder of
the Askesian Society,
Treasurer of
the Royal Lancastrian Society,
Editor of
The Philanthropist, founding
member of the
Peace Society,
Member of the
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, founder
member and a
Director of the African Institution,
As a Quaker, William Allen was a partner of Robert Owen, and a colleague of Jeremy Bentham, Henry Peter Brougham 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Jacob Dixon, George Eliot, George Jacob Holyoake, Johann Georg Rapp, Ernestine Louise Siismondi Potowski Rose, John Tyndall, James John Garth Wilkinson, and Fanny Wright,
William Allen’s father Job Allen was a silk manufacturer, so it is possible that he would have known homeopaths Jean Barthelemy Arles Dufour and William Laidler Leaf (William Allen was a colleague of James Mill, the father of John Stuart Mill who was a close friend of Jean Barthelemy Arles Dufour and homeopath James John Garth Wilkinson),
William Allen was also a colleague of William Wilberforce, the father of Samuel Wilberforce (who was a patient of homeopath James Manby Gully),
Of interest:
In 1882, a B Hanbury was a sponsor of homeopathy, (donation of £10 given via Robert Grosvenor 1st Baron Ebury),