Harry Cranbrook Allen MC FRHS (23 March 1917 – 21 June 1998) was a British historian of the United States.
Born on 23 March 1917, Harry Cranbrook Allen was educated at Bedford School and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was a Scholar and gained a first class degree in Modern History.
He was elected as a Fellow by the Commonwealth Fund of New York in 1939 (he took up the Fellowship at Harvard University after the Second World War).
He served during the Second World War with the Hertfordshire Regiment and the Dorset Regiment in France and Germany, was promoted to the rank of Major, awarded the Military Cross, and appointed as Commandant of the 43rd Division Educational College, between June and November 1945.
[1][2] He was Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, between 1946 and 1955, Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History at University College London, between 1955 and 1971, and Director of the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London, between 1966 and 1971.