| LC control no. | no2008151780 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Allen, Ralph, approximately 1693-1764 |
| Variant(s) | Allen, Ralph, ca. 1693-1764 |
| Associated place | Combe Down (England) Bathampton (England) |
| Located | Bath (England) |
| Birth date | 1693~ |
| Death date | 17640629 |
| Place of birth | Great Britain |
| Field of activity | Entrepreneurship Charities Postal service--Great Britain Stone |
| Affiliation | Great Britain. Post Office |
| Profession or occupation | Businesspeople Philanthropists Mayors |
| Found in | Autograph letters signed from William Warburton, Gloucester, Newark upon Trent, London and Prior Park, to various people, 1738-1772 (Ralph Allen) Oxford DNB [via www, 2008 October 6] (Allen, Ralph (baptised 1693, died 1764), postal entrepreneur and philanthropist) Wikipedia, viewed July 27, 2015 (Ralph Allen, 1693-June 29, 1764 was an entrepreneur and philanthropist, and was notable for his reforms to the British postal system ; as a teenager he worked at the Post Office ; he moved in 1710 to Bath, where he became a post office clerk, and at the age of 19, in 1712, became the Postmaster of Bath ; in 1742 he was elected Mayor of Bath ; he used the wealth gained from his postal reforms to acquire the stone quarries at Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines ; gave money and the stone for the building of the Mineral Water Hospital) |
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