Sir Harold Egbert Allan OBE (15 March 1895 – 18 February 1953) was a Jamaican politician, legislator and statesman.
The following year, he helped establish the Land Settlement system and Unemployment Relief and Rehabilitation Centre in Kingston's west end.
[2] Though he was politically independent, he worked closely with Jamaican Labour Party government leader Alexander Bustamante, and was appointed Minister for Finance and General Purposes in 1945.
[1] In 1979, his wife Lady Edris (née Trottman) Allan donated his papers to the Civil Rights leaders collection at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Center made microfilm copies of his papers, and gave them to the Institute of Jamaica, the Jamaican Archives and the University of the West Indies.