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Peter John Allan

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Occupation
  
Nationality
  
ENG


Name
  
Peter Allan

Role
  
Poet

Born
  
June 6, 1825York, England (
1825-06-06
)

Died
  
October 21, 1848, Fredericton, Canada

Education
  
University of King's College

Peter John Allan (6 June 1825 – 21 October 1848) was a Canadian poet.

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Life

He was born at York, the son of Dr. Colin Allan, at one time chief medical officer of Halifax, Nova Scotia. His short life was mainly spent there and in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where his family moved on his father's retirement in 1836.

For a time Allan studied law, but after the success of some published poems began to write full-time. Before his first book of verse was printed, he went down with fever, and died, after a brief illness, at the age of 23.

Works

More than four years after Allan's death was published in London the Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq. (1853) with a biographical notice, edited by Henry Christmas. The memoir was by the poet's brother, James McGrigor Allan. Allan wrote mainly under Lord Byron's influence.

References

Peter John Allan Wikipedia


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