Elizabeth Acland Allen (1901–1969) was a British social activist of the 20th century involved in a number of women's, liberal and civil liberties organisations.
[1] Allen is recorded as having been employed in the 1930s as a secretary of Rosa Manus, a Dutch activist involved in a number of women's organisations.
[3] Allen became the General Secretary of the (UK) National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) in 1942, serving until 1960; she was the only women of the time to lead a large advocacy organisation.
The Metropolitan Police Special Branch took the view that Allen's accession to the General Secretary role brought the organisation ‘more firmly than ever under Communist Party control’.
A number of previous supporters had left the organisation and it was perceived to have a reduced status, and to have lost the glamour of its early years.