HENRY DEACON ALLEN

Born - Died in 1919

A director of Cooper Allen (BIC), he was the second son of Sir George Allen, owner and co-founder of Cooper Allen & Co, Cawnpore. In March 1905 he married Gertrude Petronella (Nella), daughter of Colonel Sydney Long Jacob. They had children:

1 Rosalind, born in July 1907. She married Paul Broomhall.
2 Monica, born in May 1909. She married Dr Geoffrey Lehman MBE, surgeon and engineer.
3 Lois, born in December 1911, and died in 1988. She married Gordon Perry, schoolmaster.
4 John , chartered accountant. He married Betty -----.

They lived at 'The Retreat', outside Cawnpore. After Henry's death in 1919, Nella left a large sum of money to found a school in his honour, which is today a flourishing co-educational boarding-school, Wynberg-Allen, in Mussoone.

Nella retired with her 4 children, going first to Bath. Yet she returned to India every Winter for over 40 years. On board her Anchor line ship her birthday was celebrated each October with all the ceremony normally reserved for that of the King Emperor (or so legend has it).

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