James McGrigor Allan (1827, Bristol - 1916, Epsom)[1] was a British anthropologist and writer.
McGrigor was the son of Colin Allan, at one time chief medical officer of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Jane Gibbon.
[2] He opposed women's right to vote and argued that universal suffrage would cause the disruption of domestic ties, the desecration of marriage and the dissolution of the family.
[3][4] He attributed the agitation for equal rights to the problem of the "superfluous women" on account of emigration and the growing objection of middle and upper-class men to marriage.
His younger brother was the poet Peter John Allan.