George Cyril Allen

[1] He was Brunner Professor of Economic Science at the University of Liverpool from 1933 to 1947, and then Professor of Political Economy at University College London from 1947 to 1967.

After education at King Henry VIII School, Coventry he briefly joined at the Royal Air Force in 1918 before studying at the University of Birmingham.

From 1922 to 1925 he taught economics at the Higher Commercial School in Nagoya, Japan.

Returning to Birmingham, Allen gained a PhD in 1928 with a thesis which was published the following year as The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country.

In 1947 he became Professor of Political Economy at University College London.