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William Edward David Allen (6 January 1901 – 18 September 1973) was a British scholar, Foreign Service officer, politician and businessman, best known as a historian of the South Caucasus—notably Georgia. He was closely involved in the politics of Northern Ireland, and had fascist tendencies. ==Career== Born in London, he was educated at Eton College (1914-1918) and published his first book, ''The Turks in Europe'', when he was eighteen.〔("Allen, William Edward David", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' )〕 He was a special correspondent for the ''Morning Post'' during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) and the Rif War (1925). In the pre-World War II years, he travelled a lot and conducted extensive research on the history of the peoples of the Caucasus and Anatolia. In 1930, along with Sir Oliver Wardrop, he founded the Georgian Historical Society; the Society published its own journal, ''Georgica'', dedicated to Kartvelian studies. His mother financed his personal enterprises until around 1935, and also provided a home at Commonwood House, Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, where he and his brothers could bring their guests at weekends: in Allen's case, he wrote later, these would include 'bizarre intellectuals, Caucasian philologists and exiled national leaders from the remoter parts of Central Asia'.〔 In the 1940s, he accompanied Orde Wingate on his mission to Abyssinia, and wrote a book of his experiences called ''Guerrilla War in Abyssinia''. Allen was a Foreign Service officer from 1943—notably information counsellor at Ankara between 1947 and 1949—until he stepped down and returned to his native Ulster in 1949. There he divided his working time between running the family business (''David Allen's'', a major bill-posting company) and writing the two major books which he completed during the 1950s: ''Caucasian Battlefields'' (1953, with Pavel Muratov), and ''David Allens'' (1957, an account of the business and a collective biography of the Allen family). His last book, ''Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)'', written with the help of the translator Anthony Mango, was published in two volumes by the Hakluyt Society in 1970. After his death in 1973, his extensive library of books on Georgia and the Caucasus was estimated at £30,000 (worth between £280,000 and £530,000 in 2014).〔〔("Measuring Worth" website )〕 This library is now part of the University of Indiana's Lilly Library, which describes it as being 'rich in travel narratives, chronicles and works in linguistics, and () a number of books and some manuscripts in the Georgian language'.〔(The Lilly Library: Guide to the Collections )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Edward David Allen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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