G. A. T. (George A. T.) Allan

G. A. T. Allan — George A. T. Allan — is a notably obscure figure in the historical record. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of The Nurserymatograph, which appears to be the work most readily connected with his name.

A small biographical detail survives through another source: the Wikipedia article on publisher Ian Allan identifies G. A. T. Allan as Ian Allan's father and says he was a clerk at Christ's Hospital school in Horsham, Sussex. Beyond that, reliable, easily confirmed information about his life and career appears to be very limited.

That makes him one of those authors known mainly through a surviving text rather than a well-documented public life — a reminder of how many writers from the past have outlasted their biographies through a single curious book.