Frederick Hobbes Allen (May 30, 1858 – December 3, 1937) was an American international lawyer and naval aviator during World War I who was prominent in New York Society during the Gilded Age.

[1] His father was sent to Hawaii by President Zachary Taylor to obtain a reciprocity treaty from King Kamahameha III.

As his birth was only ten days after Prince Albert of Hawaii, they became close friends and spent a lot of time together.

In 1883, Allen became secretary of the Hawaiian Legation at Washington, becoming Charge d'Affaires of the group the following year, after the death of his father.

[5] In 1894, he established his law firm of Adams & Allen at 63 Wall Street in New York City, where he was located since.

In 1913, he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson's to his Peace Commission that toured Europe "to study agriculture production, distribution and rural credits".

[5] In 1888, Ward McAllister chose Allen to lead the cotillion at a Patriarchs Ball, bringing him firmly into New York Society.

After their deaths, the home was left to their daughter Priscilla, who sold it to Muriel Vanderbilt and her husband, Dr. John Payson Adams, in 1945.

Mr. Allen, who is a native of Boston, has lived in New-York for some years, but has never occupied a very prominent position in society, although popular among his friends.

"[5] In 1887, shocking society, her mother (the daughter of Joseph Sampson, one of the founding shareholders of Chemical Bank[18]) divorced her father and married Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1843–1917).