Life
Allinson was born in December 1852 in Newcastle upon Tyne. He attended Lincoln College, Oxford University, from which he took a Master of Arts degree on June 14, 1877. After graduation he worked as an assistant school master and a librarian. He was also a meteorological hobbyist. He was living in Newcastle, Northumberland in 1901, and in St Thomas, Exeter in Devon in 1911. He died in December 1929 in the London Borough of Hackney.
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