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viiL—iit jHemoriam : john Allan. 



By Mr JOHN LINDSAY. 

 {Read Jan. 23, 1889.) 



It was with a painful sense of surprise that, a ^e^ days after 

 our first meeting for this Session, the members of the Society 

 read m the daily papers the announcement of the sudden 

 death of our fellow-member and Councillor, Mr John Allan 

 He was with us on Wednesday, the 28th of November last" 

 when the President delivered his opening address: on the' 

 Saturday following he went to Easter Middleton, near Gore- 

 bridge where his wife was an invalid at the house of her 

 parents : while there he was suddenly prostrated by sickness 

 on the evening of his arrival, and died the next day, after a' 

 few hours illness, of acute inflammation of the brain. On 

 Wednesday December 5-one short week after our meeting 

 —Dr Macfar lane and I accompanied the relatives to Carluke 

 where loving hands laid him to rest side by side with his kith 

 and km in the quiet village churchyard. 



Jf^^'^^^'S- T ^°''' '^ ^""^^ 12' 1^45' ^t Carluke, Lan- 

 arkslvre.^ His father, John Allan, was a farmer, and ;wned 

 he farms of TanhiU and Windyha', near Carluie. Shorty 



m hi! It °V^^^^"r ^'^^'-^ °^^^' ^^^ d-d - early 

 hfe-his father died, and the widow was left alone in the 



wor d with her boy. He was sent to the parish school at 



Carluke, then taught by a Mr Barrie; and on that gentleman 



being appomted head-master of the Grammar-school at Dal- 



J^eith, John Allan proceeded thither, boarding in the school 



master's house. While here his boyish love°for lire wa 



much quickened by new scenes and surroundings, and the 



Saturdays were generally spent in roaming about the banks of 



the Esk, or in excursions to some of the picturesque places 



in the neighbourhood. Eeturning home when sclool days 



were over, a profession had to be decided upon. Seeing he 



came of a race of farmers, and that his father's farms" (to 



» Mrs Allan died, after a long illness, on August 2, 1889 

 a or the facts in this short memoir regarding the earlv lifp of AT,, t i a i, 

 I am much indebted to Mr Thomas Walker M ddlehn^P P , ^^ ^ 

 of Mr Allan, and his companion in Jn^llo^^fZ^i '^'~' '''''''' 



