James Alexander Allan

James Alexander Allan (10 May 1879 – 22 January 1967) was an Australian poet and local historian.

Allan was born in Melbourne. He studied at Alfred Crescent State School, North Fitzroy and the Model School. Between 1912 and 1918 he worked as a Commonwealth Public Servant, and again from 1942 to 1950.[1]

Bibliography
  • A Wineshop Madonna (1911; verse)
  • The Old Model School (1934)
  • Revolution (1940; verse)
  • Men And Manners In Australia (1945)
  • The History Of Camberwell (1949)
gollark: I like right-angled ones most because you can apply trigonometry to them more easily.
gollark: I quite like them, my favourites are right-angled triangles.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Now we've settled that, triangles.
gollark: Great!

References
  1. Stewart, Douglas, ed. (1965), "Index of Authors", Modern Australian Verse, University of California Press, p. 216
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