Lancelot Baugh Allen

Lancelot Baugh Allen (1 January 1774 – 28 October 1845) was Master of the College of God's Gift in Dulwich from 1811 to 1820.

[1] He was the son of John Bartlett Allen, a local landowner and colliery owner in Cresselly, Pembrokeshire.

Allen had one younger brother, John Hensleigh Allen, MP for Pembrokeshire, and nine sisters whose husbands included Josiah Wedgwood II of the Wedgwood pottery firm, Sir James Mackintosh (MP), John Wedgwood the horticulturist and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, the historian.

Allen studied at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected a scholar "but not admitted, in consequence of his refusal to take the statutable oath."

The National Portrait Gallery, London holds Thomas Goff Lupton's portrait of Allen, after Sir William Beechey.