Allan Glaisyer Minns (1858 – 16 September 1930) was a medical doctor, and the first mixed race man to become a mayor in Britain.

His grandfather, also called John Minns, had emigrated about 1801 from England to the Bahamas,[2] where he married Rosette, a former African slave.

However, in reporting Archer's election, the American Negro Year Book 1914 noted that "[i]n 1904, Mr. Allen Glaser Minns [sic], a colored man from the West Indies, was elected mayor of the borough of Thetford, Norfolk.

His son Allan Noel Minns (1891–1921), also a doctor, was one of the few black officers to serve in the British Army during the First World War.

[9] Allan Glaisyer Minns died in Dorking on 16 September 1930, leaving a legacy as a trailblazer in both medicine and local government.