John Allen (religious writer)

John Allen (1771–1839) was an English dissenting layman and religious writer.

Allen was born at Truro in 1771 and educated there by a Dr Cardue. He afterwards kept an academy, the Madras House grammar school, for 30 years in Hackney, where he died on 17 June 1839.^[1]

Allen's major work, first published in 1816, was Modern Judaism; or a Brief Account of the Opinions, Traditions, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Jews in Modern Times (i. e. since the Christian era). It was reprinted in 1830. He also published:

• The Fathers, the Reformers, and the Public Formularies of the Church of England in Harmony with Calvin and against the Bishop of Lincoln (1812 anonymously)
• Memoirs of Major-General Burn, 1815, on Andrew Burn
• A translation of Calvin's Institutes
• Some sermons of Danirel de Superville, 1816
• Two Dissertations on Sacrifices from the Latin of William Owtram.^[1]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Allen, John (1771-1839)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

• Works by John Allen at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)