OBITUARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 28 September 1934, Page 5

OBITUARY

SIR FREDERICK ALLEN (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 27th September, The death is announced of - Sir Frederick Allen, vice-chairman of tlie P. and O. Company.

Sir Frederick Charles Allen was aged 70 years. He was for 25 years in the East, and represented the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company in Bombay, Calcutta, Aden and Ceylon, returning to England in 1910 to take charge of the Blue Anchor Line which had just been purchased by the P. & O. Company. Subsequently he became assistant manager of the latter and at the time of his death he was vicechairman and a managing director. He was also a deputy chairman and a managing director of the British India Steam Navigation Company and a director of Messrs Delmege, Allen and Company. The late Sir Frederick Allen was chairman of the council of the Shipping Federation; chairman of the National Maritipic Board, Thames district committee of the Shipping Federation, and the National Council of Port Labour Employers. He was a past president of the Chamber of Shipping, a past president of the National Confederation of Employers’ Organisations, and a member of the Port of London Authority.

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