Sir Richard Hugh Sedley Allen
(1903-1996), British ambassador to BurmaSitter in 2 portraits
by Walter Bird
bromide print, 13 September 1960
NPG x163562
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Larry D. Gilmore
24 December 2021, 23:10
After leaving the UK foreign service Sir Richard Allen taught history classes at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, USA during the mid to late 1960’s. He left in 1969 to teach at another college, but I do not recall which one. I took a couple of his classes at Whitman.