[1] Basil Allchin attended Christ's Hospital School in London and went on to study at Oxford as a non-collegiate student, where he was awarded Bachelor of Arts in 1898.
[4] Allchin was also an Examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music, and (with Ernest Read) the author of A Book of Aural Tests (1936).
[5][6] Among his many pupils were Barbara Cass-Beggs, conductor and organist Guy Harrison (1894-1986), Robert Still and William Walton.
Their addresses in Oxford included 18 Turl Street (early 1930s) and The Thatched Cottage, North Hinksey (from 1935).
He died in Wells, Somerset at the age of 78, survived by his twin sister Gwladys Marguerite Allchin (1878-1972).