H. Montagu Allan
Lt.-Colonel Sir (Hugh Andrew) Montague Allan, CVO (October 13, 1860 – September 26, 1951) was a Canadian banker, ship owner, and a sportsman who donated the Allan Cup, the trophy symbolic of men's amateur ice hockey supremacy in Canada.
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