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Peter John Allan (6 June 1825 – 21 October 1848) was a Canadian poet.




Life


He was born at York, the son of Dr. Colin Allan, at one time chief medical officer of Halifax, Nova Scotia. His short life was mainly spent there and in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where his family moved on his father's retirement in 1836. Growing up in Fredericton, Peter John briefly attended King’s College but left before completing his degree.
For a time Allan studied law, but after the success of some published poems began to write full-time. Before his first book of verse was printed, he went down with fever, and died, after a brief illness, at the age of 23.




Works


More than four years after Allan's death was published in London the Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq. (1853) with a biographical notice, edited by Henry Christmas. The memoir was by the poet's brother, James McGrigor Allan. Allan wrote mainly under Lord Byron's influence.




Notes






External links


Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Poems at the Canadian Poetry Archive
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Allan, Peter John". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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