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Islington) George (Vicar of St. Thomas's Allen
1827–1878
A Victorian Church of England clergyman remembered today for a published sermon that tied the 1861 census to questions of faith, duty, and national life. His surviving work offers a small but vivid glimpse of parish preaching in nineteenth-century Islington.
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"The Numbering of the People" A Sermon in conjunction with the census of 1861 preached in St. Thomas' Church, Islington, on Sunday Evening, April 7
by Islington) George (Vicar of St. Thomas's Allen
About the author
George Allen was an Anglican clergyman identified in library and publishing records as Vicar of St. Thomas's, Islington. Those same records give his lifespan as 1827–1878.
He is chiefly known through The Numbering of the People, a sermon preached at St. Thomas' Church, Islington, on April 7, 1861, in connection with the national census. The sermon was later printed, and its survival suggests the kind of public, practical preaching that connected everyday civic events with religious reflection in Victorian London.
Little biographical detail was readily confirmed beyond his parish role and dates, but the record of his published sermon preserves his place in the religious life of nineteenth-century Islington.