After Middlesex Career
After retiring from the county game for Middlesex game in 1950, Allen remained an influential figure in cricket. He played until 1954 and scored an unbeaten first-class century (143*) against Cambridge University for the Free Foresters in 1953.
Allen chaired the selection panel for the England cricket team between 1955 and 1961. As a selector has been criticised for having been "...happiest in the company of clipped accents and a background that incorporated all the social graces".
Allen was knighted for "services to Cricket" in 1986. During his retirement he was regularly to be seen at Lord's Cricket Ground and around the Middlesex team. He gave fifty years service to the MCC, serving as President in 1963-4 and Treasurer for 12 years thereafter. MCC rented a house to him maintained by the groundstaff: a personal gate led from his garden into the ground, and he was granted his own key to the pavilion.
When close to death in 1989, he requested that he be taken home from hospital so that he could die within sight of the pavilion and the stand at Lord's that bore his name.
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