George Allan (antiquary)
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George Allan (1736–21 July 1828), English antiquary and attorney at Darlington, was the author of several works relating to the history and antiquities of the county of Durham; he greatly aided W. Hutchinson in his History and Antiquities of the Country Palatine of Durham.[1] He presented to the Society of Antiquaries of London 26 quarto volumes of a manuscript relating principally to the University of Oxford, which he extracted from the public libraries there. He possessed a printing press, with which he produced several works; among them was a reprint of Robert Hegg's 1626 work, Legend of St Cuthbert.
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- Rose, Hugh James [1853] (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary, London: B. Fellowes et al.
