David Allison was born on July 3, 1836, in Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia.

He was a Canadian professor, educational administrator, and author. He was president of Mount Allison College (1869-1878) and later of Mount Allison University (1891-1911). He studied at the Dalhousie Collegiate School (later Dalhousie University), the Wesleyan Academy in Sackville, New Brunswick, and Wesleyan University in Connecticut (B.A., 1859; M.A., 1862). In 1862, he became a professor of classics at Mount Allison College and succeeded Humphrey Pickard as president of the college in 1869. He was active in advocating the innovation of women’s undergraduate education. In 1877, Allison was named superintendent of education for Nova Scotia. He developed an English grammar for use in Nova Scotia schools and wrote a three-volume “History of Nova Scotia” (1916). He returned to Mount Allison University in 1891 for his second term as president.

In 1862, he married Elizabeth Ann Powell (1839–1898), and in 1902, he remarried Ellen Elizabeth Cummins. He died on February 13, 1924, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Frederick Allison, an Englishman, was Napoleon's orderly during his final exile on St. Helena.

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Robert N. Allsopp was born in April 1937 in Leicester, England.

He is a landscape architect, urban planner, and architect. He studied architecture at the Leicester College of Art and Technology. He became a registered architect in 1961 and completed his first major architectural commission in 1963. He then pursued graduate studies in Civic Design at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, followed by two years as a Visiting Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Kansas, USA, under the auspices of the Fulbright Scholarship Program. Returning to London, UK, he worked as an Architect/Planner on planning a New Town and major urban regeneration projects in London and Cardiff. Allsopp moved to Canada in 1968 to take up the position of Director of Campus Planning at the University of Manitoba and subsequently became involved (with Alex Rattray) in establishing the graduate Landscape Architecture Program there. In 1979, he joined Roger duToit Architects/du Toit Associates in Toronto and began teaching in the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto. The partnership, du Toit Allsopp Hillier, was formed in 1985, and it continues as DTAH, a much-expanded, multi-dimensional design practice. His best-known work is in campus planning, urban neighbourhoods, and a wide range of projects in Canada’s National Capital, recognized nationally and internationally. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) and a member of The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP). He is the recipient of the RIBA’s Soane Medallion, a Fulbright Scholarship, a Canada Council ‘Residency in Barcelona’ Award, the OALA’s Pinnacle Award and the CSLA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2023, he established the Robert N. Allsopp Urban Design Fellowship with the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation (LACF).

Captain S. W. Allworthy, M.D., was a physician at the Belfast Hospital for Skin Diseases in Ireland (late 1800s and early 1900s), the Royal Army Medical Corps (Liverpool Regiment) and author writing articles about public health, hygiene, sanitation, and venereal diseases of field soldiers during World War I. He was a Fellow of the Chemical Society and the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (1893).

Jan Alm was born in 1955.

He is a Swedish composer, musician, and educator. He studied double bass with Ferdinand Lipa, in Göteborg, Sweden and Klaus Stoll, in Berlin. After working in Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Norway, as assistant principal for one year, he joined the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 1984, becoming assistant principal in this orchestra in 1986. The same year, he was appointed teacher of double bass at the University of Gothenburg, Academy of Music and Drama. He's been teaching the summer course of Bass Club in England since 1999. In 2006, he wrote pieces for electric bass and orchestra, performed by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Gävle Symfoniorkester. He completed a cycle of fourteen settings of poems by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 2007. Scored for piano, string quartet and harp, the songs have been performed in Sweden and Warsaw, Poland. A new edition of Quartet No. 1 for double basses is available from February 2012.