James McGrigor Allan

James McGrigor Allan (1827 - after 1890) was a British anthropologist and writer.

Biography

McGrigor was the son of Dr. Colin Allan, at one time chief medical officer of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Jane Gibbon.[1] He opposed women's right to vote and argued that universal suffrage would cause the disruption of domestic ties, the desecration of marriage and the dissolution of the family.[2] He attributed the agitation for equal rights to the problem of the "superfluous women" on account of emigration and the growing objection of middle and upper-class men to marriage.[3]

He was member of the Anthropological Society of London. His younger brother was the poet Peter John Allan.

Works

Fiction

Non-fiction

Selected articles

Miscellany

References

  1. Vincent, Thomas B. (1988). “Allan, Peter John,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. 7, University of Toronto/Université Laval.
  2. McGrigor Allan (1890). Woman Suffrage, Wrong in Principle, and Practice: An Essay. London: Remington & Company, p. 269.
  3. "The Privileges of Both Sexes," Auckland Star, Vol. I, Issue 231, 5 October 1870, p. 2.

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