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Sir Hugh Allan

Sir Hugh Allan 1810-82, Canadian financier and shipowner, b. Scotland. He emigrated to Canada in 1826, was employed by a large shipbuilding company in Montreal, and later founded the Allan Line of steamships. He was given the contract to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, but the Pacific scandal (1873) led to its cancellation.

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Allan, Sir William

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Allan, Sir William (b Edinburgh, 1782; d Edinburgh, 23 Feb. 1850). Scottish historical painter. From 1805 to 1814 he travelled extensively in Russia, and this gave him a taste for exotic subject matter involving Circassians, Cossacks, Tartars, and Turks (he collected arms and armour and other artefacts to use as props and sometimes wore Circassian costume himself). These pictures did not sell well, but in the 1820s he successfully took up Scottish subjects, including scenes from the novels of Sir Walter Scott, who was Allan's enthusiastic supporter. With his friend Wilkie, Allan did much to establish the vogue for historical genre painting in Scotland. He also painted portraits.

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