William Edward David Allen

William Edward David Allen OBE (6 ga watan Janairun 1901 - 18 ga watan Satumbar 1973) masanin kimiyya ne na Burtaniya, jami'in ma'aikatar kasashen waje, ɗan siyasa da ɗan kasuwa, wanda aka fi sani da shi a matsayin masanin tarihin Kudancin Caucasus - musamman Georgia .

 Ayyuka 
An haife shi, a gefen mahaifinsa, dangin Ulster-Scots a London kuma ya girma a Hertfordshire, ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Eton (1914-1918), inda ya fara koyon Rasha da Turkiyya. Ya buga littafinsa na farko, The Turks in Europe, lokacin da yake dan shekara goma sha takwas. Ya kasance wakilin musamman na The Morning Post a lokacin Yakin Girka da Turkiyya (1919-1922) da Yaƙin Rif (1925).

A cikin shekarun da suka gabata kafin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, ya yi tafiya sosai kuma ya gudanar da bincike mai zurfi kan tarihin mutanen Caucasus da Anatolia. A cikin 1930, tare da Sir Oliver Wardrop, ya kafa kungiyar Tarihin Tarihi ta Georgia; kungiyar ta buga nata mujallar, Georgica, wacce aka keɓe ga Nazarin Kartvelian.

Mahaifiyarsa ta ba da kuɗin kamfanoninsa har zuwa shekara ta 1935, kuma ta ba da gida a Commonwood House, Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, inda shi da 'yan uwansa za su iya kawo baƙi a karshen mako: a cikin yanayin Allen, ya rubuta daga baya, waɗannan za su haɗa da "masu ilimi masu ban mamaki, masana ilimin Caucasian da shugabannin ƙasa da aka tura daga yankunan Asiya ta Tsakiya".

 Ayyukan siyasa da fascism 
Allen ya tsaya ba tare da nasara ba a Fermanagh da Tyrone a Babban zaben 1922,  amma an zabe shi shekaru bakwai bayan haka a yunkurinsa na gaba, a Babban zaben 1929 a matsayin memba na Unionist (MP) na Belfast West. 

Ya sauya sheka daga Unionists a 1931, don shiga Sabon Jam'iyyar Sir Oswald Mosley, amma bai tsaya takarar Babban zaben 1931 ba.  Ya kasance hannun dama na Mosley  kuma ya kare ƙungiyoyin fascist a fili, gami da Ƙungiyar Fascists ta Burtaniya ta Mosley, a matsayin "bayyanar niyyar sabuntawa ta Turai. "  Ya shiga cikin babban mai hannun jari a cikin shirin Mosley na gina tashar watsa shirye-shiryen rediyo tare da kudaden Nazi a 1938 biyo bayan nasarar da Diana Mosley ta yi wa Adolf Hitler. A cikin wannan shekarar, ya tattauna biyan babban kuɗi ga Mosley (an bukaci £ 120,000 kuma an ba da £ 40,000) ta hanyar mai ba da kuɗi na Rexist na Belgium Wryns a matsayin wani ɓangare na fansa don sakin Louis Nathaniel na Rothschild ta Nazis.

An yi imanin cewa ikirarin cewa shi mai ba da labari ne na MI5 karya ne;  duk da haka, takardun da ke cikin National Archive sun tabbatar da cewa MI5 ta yi masa tambayoyi a 1942 kuma sun ba da bayani game da kudaden BUF daga Fascist Italiya. 

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
Ya yi aure: (1) daga 1922 zuwa 1932, ga Lady Phyllis Edith King (1897-1947), 'yar Lionel Fortescue King, 3rd Earl na Lovelace (1865-1929);  (2) daga 1932 zuwa 1939, ga Paula Gellibrand (1898-1986), sau ɗaya daga cikin samfuran da Cecil Beaton ya fi so, tsohon matar Marquis de Casa Maury; kuma (3) daga 1943, ga Nathalie Maximovna (c. 1900-1966).

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 1973
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1901