Ralph Allen (1693 - June 29, 1764) was baptised at St Columb Major Cornwall on July 24 1693. As a teenager he worked at the Post Office. He moved to Bath in 1710 where he became a clerk in the Bath Post Office, and at the age of 19, in 1712, he became the Post Master of Bath. Events January 11 - Eruption of Mt. ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Location within the British Isles. ... Jump to: navigation, search Motto: Onan hag oll (Cornish: One and all) Cornwall, England Geography Status Ceremonial and (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Region South West England Area - Total - Admin. ... July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... Small-town post office and town hall in Lockhart, Alabama A post office is a facility (in most countries, a government one) where the public can purchase postage stamps for mailing correspondence or merchandise, and also drop off or pick up packages or other special-delivery items. ... The Palladian-style Pulteney Bridge and the weir at Bath. ... // Events April 10 - The worlds first copyright legislation became effective, Britains Statute of Anne Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) Births January 4 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. ... // Events Treaty of Aargau signed between Catholic and Protestants. ...

Ralph Allen

He acquired the stone quarries at Combe Down just as the building boom started in Bath, and from his quarries came the stone for building the Georgian city, making Allen a second fortune. Ralph Allen File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Ralph Allen File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Combe Down is a village on the outskirts of Bath in the English county of Somerset, within the Bath and North East Somerset Council area. ...

He had the Palladian mansion "Prior Park" built for himself (1742) on a hill overlooking the city, "To see all Bath, and for all Bath to see". He gave money and the stone for the building of the Mineral Water Hospital in 1738, and even built cottages for his masons working in his quarries. A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladios I Quattro Libri dellArchitettura, in a modestly priced English translation published in London, 1736. ... Prior Park Landscape Garden is an 18th-century landscape garden, designed by the poet Alexander Pope and Capability Brown, and now owned by the National Trust. ... // Events January 24 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... Events January 1 - Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. ...

In 1725 he had been elected as a common council man of the city, and in 1742 elected Mayor and was the Member of Parliament for Bath between 1757 and 1764. Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ... // Events January 24 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... 1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Ralph Allen died at the age of seventy one and is buried in a pyramid-topped tomb in Claverton churchyard.

Alexander Pope somewhat patronisingly referred to him in a poem of 1738 as "low-born". Jump to: navigation, search Alexander Pope (May 22, 1688 – May 30, 1744) is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century. ... Events January 1 - Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. ...

Bibliography

• Boyce, B. (1967) The benevolent man: a life of Ralph Allen of Bath
• Peach, R.E.M. (1895) The life and times of Ralph Allen
• Hopkins, A.E. (ed.) (1960) Ralph Allen's own narrative, 1720–1761, *Davis, S. (1985) Ralph Allen: benefactor and postal reformer [Bath Postal Museum booklet]

Later on he had a school named after him, Ralph Allen school in Bath