Allen, William (5),
an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Fetcham, Surrey; Feb. 25, 1804. He united with the Church at the age of thirteen; entered the ministry at nineteen (1823); became a supernumerary in 1864; and died March 14, 1866. He was an earnest and conscientious minister; labored on important circuits; was chairman of a district; and was an example to believers in word and in spirit. See Minutes of Conf. (Lond. 1866), p. 25.