Samuel Webster Allen (23 March 1844 – 13 May 1908) was an English bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

[3] He was also active in town life as Vice-Chairman of the Shrewsbury School Board (established 1881) and of the Atcham Board of Guardians, and was for some 20 years Roman Catholic chaplain at Shrewsbury Prison.

[4] He gave up these public offices when he was appointed the Bishop of Shrewsbury by the Holy See on 16 June 1897.

[1] Allen died in office at the Cathedral House, Belmont, Shrewsbury[1] of pneumonia, after being ill since the previous October,[3] on 13 May 1908, aged 64[1] and was buried in the General Cemetery in Longden Road, Shrewsbury.

[3] Ambrose Moriarty, the later sixth Bishop of Shrewsbury, also born in Stockport, was his nephew.