• daughter of Horace Gwynne Allen & Grace Dupee (Chamberlain) Allen
• her father was a Lawyer
• her father was born in Jamaica Plain, MA & her mother was born in Brunswick
• her paternal grandfather was born in NH; her grandmothers were born in MA, and her maternal grandfather was born in Maine
• her sisters were born in Massachusetts: Beatrice L Allen (Dec 1893), & Rosamond (Dec 1898)
• a legal scholar, author & retired Foreign Service Reserve officer of the State Department
• a direct descendant of Myles Standish
• graduated in 1918 from Radcliffe College with Bachelor's degree
• she also earned a Master of Arts and Doctoral degrees from Radcliffe College
• in 1930 she received a Law degree from Portia Law School
• she worked on fellowships from the Carnegie Endowment. for International Peace & for the Commission on Relief in Belgium from 1919 to 1922
• for many years she was curator of the Olivart Collection of International Law at Harvard Law School
• in 1933 she published a book "The Position of Foreign States Before National Courts"
• a linguist, she was fluent in five languages
• until her retirement in 1964 she served 20 years as cultural affairs & exchange officer with the Foreign Service Reserve, assigned to duty in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Britain & Austria
• in 1974 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Bowdoin College
• she was survived by her sister, Rosamond Allen of St Petersburg, Florida & Duxbury, MA
[A nice obituary in the The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 17 Apr 1980, Thu, page 47. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910 birth: v.432, p. 293, #13159]
• her father was a Lawyer
• her father was born in Jamaica Plain, MA & her mother was born in Brunswick
• her paternal grandfather was born in NH; her grandmothers were born in MA, and her maternal grandfather was born in Maine
• her sisters were born in Massachusetts: Beatrice L Allen (Dec 1893), & Rosamond (Dec 1898)
• a legal scholar, author & retired Foreign Service Reserve officer of the State Department
• a direct descendant of Myles Standish
• graduated in 1918 from Radcliffe College with Bachelor's degree
• she also earned a Master of Arts and Doctoral degrees from Radcliffe College
• in 1930 she received a Law degree from Portia Law School
• she worked on fellowships from the Carnegie Endowment. for International Peace & for the Commission on Relief in Belgium from 1919 to 1922
• for many years she was curator of the Olivart Collection of International Law at Harvard Law School
• in 1933 she published a book "The Position of Foreign States Before National Courts"
• a linguist, she was fluent in five languages
• until her retirement in 1964 she served 20 years as cultural affairs & exchange officer with the Foreign Service Reserve, assigned to duty in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Britain & Austria
• in 1974 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Bowdoin College
• she was survived by her sister, Rosamond Allen of St Petersburg, Florida & Duxbury, MA
[A nice obituary in the The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 17 Apr 1980, Thu, page 47. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910 birth: v.432, p. 293, #13159]
• daughter of Horace Gwynne Allen & Grace Dupee (Chamberlain) Allen
• her father was a Lawyer
• her father was born in Jamaica Plain, MA & her mother was born in Brunswick
• her paternal grandfather was born in NH; her grandmothers were born in MA, and her maternal grandfather was born in Maine
• her sisters were born in Massachusetts: Beatrice L Allen (Dec 1893), & Rosamond (Dec 1898)
• a legal scholar, author & retired Foreign Service Reserve officer of the State Department
• a direct descendant of Myles Standish
• graduated in 1918 from Radcliffe College with Bachelor's degree
• she also earned a Master of Arts and Doctoral degrees from Radcliffe College
• in 1930 she received a Law degree from Portia Law School
• she worked on fellowships from the Carnegie Endowment. for International Peace & for the Commission on Relief in Belgium from 1919 to 1922
• for many years she was curator of the Olivart Collection of International Law at Harvard Law School
• in 1933 she published a book "The Position of Foreign States Before National Courts"
• a linguist, she was fluent in five languages
• until her retirement in 1964 she served 20 years as cultural affairs & exchange officer with the Foreign Service Reserve, assigned to duty in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Britain & Austria
• in 1974 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Bowdoin College
• she was survived by her sister, Rosamond Allen of St Petersburg, Florida & Duxbury, MA
[A nice obituary in the The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 17 Apr 1980, Thu, page 47. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910 birth: v.432, p. 293, #13159]
• her father was a Lawyer
• her father was born in Jamaica Plain, MA & her mother was born in Brunswick
• her paternal grandfather was born in NH; her grandmothers were born in MA, and her maternal grandfather was born in Maine
• her sisters were born in Massachusetts: Beatrice L Allen (Dec 1893), & Rosamond (Dec 1898)
• a legal scholar, author & retired Foreign Service Reserve officer of the State Department
• a direct descendant of Myles Standish
• graduated in 1918 from Radcliffe College with Bachelor's degree
• she also earned a Master of Arts and Doctoral degrees from Radcliffe College
• in 1930 she received a Law degree from Portia Law School
• she worked on fellowships from the Carnegie Endowment. for International Peace & for the Commission on Relief in Belgium from 1919 to 1922
• for many years she was curator of the Olivart Collection of International Law at Harvard Law School
• in 1933 she published a book "The Position of Foreign States Before National Courts"
• a linguist, she was fluent in five languages
• until her retirement in 1964 she served 20 years as cultural affairs & exchange officer with the Foreign Service Reserve, assigned to duty in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Britain & Austria
• in 1974 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Bowdoin College
• she was survived by her sister, Rosamond Allen of St Petersburg, Florida & Duxbury, MA
[A nice obituary in the The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 17 Apr 1980, Thu, page 47. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910 birth: v.432, p. 293, #13159]
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