Samuel Allen (bishop)

Styles of
Samuel Allen
Reference style The Right Reverend
Spoken style My Lord
Religious style Bishop

Samuel Webster Allen (23 March 1844 – 13 May 1908) was an English bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1897 to 1908.[1]

Born in Stockport, Cheshire on 23 March 1844, Allen was educated at St Mary's College, Oscott,[2] then on scholarship entered the English College, Rome.[3] He was ordained to the priesthood on 19 April 1897. He served as reporting stenographer at the Vatican Councils in 1869-1870.[4]

He returned to England, where he was Secretary to the Provincial Council of the Archdiocese of Westminster in 1873.[4] In October 1879 he came to Shrewsbury, Shropshire, as secretary to James Brown, then Bishop of Shrewsbury, and was appointed Canon at the Catholic Cathedral there in 1883.[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. His consecration to the episcopate took place on 16 June 1897, the principal consecrator was Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were Edward Ilsley, Bishop (later Archbishop) of Birmingham and Francis Mostyn, Bishop of Menevia (later Archbishop of Cardiff).[1]

Allen died in office at Shrewsbury 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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Bishop Samuel Webster Allen". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
  2. ↑ His sketch in Mate's Shropshire, Part II: Historical, Descriptive, Biographical wrongly states it as "St Mary's College, Oxon" (i.e. Oxford, as in the university).
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Death of Bishop Allen, of Shrewsbury". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 15 May 1908. p. 6.
  4. 1 2 3 Mate, C.H. (1907). Shropshire, Part II: Historical, Descriptive, Biographical. Mate. p. 26.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
John Carroll		 Bishop of Shrewsbury
1897–1908 		Succeeded by
Hugh Singleton
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