John Allen (religious writer) explained

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

Life and work

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Anonymous . Allen, John (1771–1839), dissenting layman . Dictionary of National Biography Vol. I . Smith, Elder & Co. . 1885 . 2009-06-26.