Andrew Henson Allen CBE JP (23 December 1876 – 6 August 1963) was a New Zealand businessman and politician.

[1] He was educated in Caversham, and then worked for Hallenstein Brothers for 10 years before joining his father in business as a partner in John Allan and Son.

The firm of wholesale merchants and manufacturers' agents became a limited liability company—Allen, Son, and McClure Limited—in 1907, and Allen succeeded his father as managing director in 1912.

[1][2] On 13 January 1904, Allen married Etta Elaine Peacock at St Matthew's Church, Dunedin, and the couple went on to have two children.

[1] In the 1946 New Year Honours, Allen was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for patriotic, and social-welfare services during his period of office as mayor.