Major Arthur John Allmand KSG MC FRS FRIC (7 January 1885 – 4 August 1951) was an English chemist, professor of King's College London and Knight of the Roman Catholic Order of St. Gregory the Great.

[4] To supliment his income Frank Allmand bred large white pigs gaining championships at the ‘Bath and West’ and other prizes.The family were not well off, but at the 1891 census had two servants.

Despite the disapproval from his headmaster at Grove Park School for not pursuing a university education at Oxford Allmand passed the matriculation exam in 1901 in London, being placed 9th in honours.

At Liverpool Allmand was a close contemporary of Francis Arthur Freeth and Warrington Yorke, with the trio always sitting side by side.Outside of Chemistry Allmand came under the influence of Bernard Pares, from whom he learnt Russian, the Celtic Scholar Kuno Myer, from whom he learnt some Celtic Philology and the linguist John Sampson.

[citation needed] Allmands early career was spent at the University of Liverpool as a researcher under of Frederick Donnan where he assisted with design and equipment of the Muspratt Laboratory of Physical Chemistry.

To which the reply came:‘Yes, if you will shave off your beard’.He was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment in January 1915 and in the spring of 1915 he joined the 5th Battalion near Ypres; they subsequently went to the Somme.

[9] After leaving the University of Liverpool Allmand's next role was as Professor of Chemistry at King's College, London starting in 1919 until 1950, when he retired.

In his obituary it was written by Francis Arthur Freeth that:Allmand’s main working life was dominated by his intense religious conviction that his duty was to serve his country, his university and his students to the greater glory of God.

[2]Allmand's devotion and piousness to the Catholic Church is the indicated by the fact that Pope Pius VII made him a Knight of the Order of Saint Gregory in 1950.

Allmand was said to be often dressed in a blue suit, flannel shirt and regimental tie and was said to be committed to his duty with an enthusiasm for army life and training.