Sir Carleton Kemp Allen MC

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 KC

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 (7 September 1887 – 11 December 1966) was an Australian-born professor

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 and Warden

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 of Rhodes House

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, University of Oxford

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.

Early life and student career

Carleton Allen, or 'C.K.' as he came to be known, was born in Carlton, Victoria

Carlton, Victoria

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, the third son of William Allen

William Allen (Australian clergyman)

Rev. William Allen , English-born, Australian Congregational clergyman.Allen was born in Betchworth, Surrey, and was taken to Victoria in 1852. He was educated at the Scotch and Congregational colleges in Melbourne, and matriculated at the Melbourne University in 1869...

, a Congregational minister and the younger brother of Leslie Holdsworth Allen

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. He was three when his family moved to Sydney where he attended Newington College

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 (1900–1906) . At the University of Sydney

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 he read classics and graduated BA

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 in 1910. Having won a scholarship to Oxford

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, he attended New College

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 and studied jurisprudence

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 under Sir Paul Vinogradoff

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. He took first-class honours in 1912 and was elected Eldon Law Scholar

John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

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 in 1913.

Military and Academic career

Allen was a captain

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 in the 13th Battalion

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, Middlesex Regiment

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, in World War I

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, was wounded, and was awarded the Military Cross

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 in 1918. At the end of the war, he was elected Stowell

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 Civil Law Fellow of University College, Oxford

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 and he remained a fellow of that college until his death. In 1926, he spent a year as Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

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 professor at the University of Calcutta

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 and published his lectures from that time as Law in the Making in 1927. This compilation became an established classic and he completed a seventh edition in 1965. In 1929 he was appointed professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, but in 1931 became the second warden of Rhodes House. He filled this office with great distinction and he and his wife, Dorothy, whom he had married at Oxford in 1922, won the affection and respect of generations of Rhodes scholars. On his retirement in 1952 he was knight

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ed. He died at Oxford and was survived by his second wife, Hilda, whom he had married in 1962, and by a son and daughter of his first marriage. His portrait hangs in Rhodes House.

Publications

• Law in the Making in (1927)
• Bureaucracy Triumphant (1931)
• Law and Orders (1945)
• The Queen's Peace (1953)
• Law and Disorders (1954)
• Aspects of Justice (1958); he also wrote two novels.