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===Last years===
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In 1817 Allott was living in Orchard Street, near [[Portman Square]] in London.<ref>{{cite book |title=Old Bailey Proceedings. 15th September 1845 |url=https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?name=18450915 |website=oldbaileyonline.org |date=September 1845}}</ref> He confirmed the 1822 baptism, according to [[Church of Ireland]] rites, of Charles William George Bury, future 3rd Earl of Charleville (1822–1859), in [[Geneva]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Baptism of Charles William George Bury |url=https://www.offalyarchives.com/index.php/xrdn-p2t6-ky8x |website=offalyarchives.com}}</ref> A guidebook of 1829 mentions an 1823 monument at Lausanne, by the sculptor Gibson of Rome, to "Anna Maria Allott, nata Waller".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=John |title=A Glance at Some of the Beauties and Sublimities of Switzerland: With Excursive Remarks on the Various Objects of Interest, Presented During a Tour Through Its Picturesque Scenery |date=1829 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green |page=52 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hAaFvQJ2aE0C&pg=PA52 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1817 Allott was living in Orchard Street, near [[Portman Square]] in London.<ref>{{cite web |title=Old Bailey Proceedings. 15th September 1845 |url=https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?name=18450915 |website=Old Bailey Proceedings Online |orig-date=September 1845 | date=2018 | id=t18450915}}</ref> He confirmed the 1822 baptism, according to [[Church of Ireland]] rites, of Charles William George Bury, future 3rd Earl of Charleville (1822–1859), in [[Geneva]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Baptism of Charles William George Bury |url=https://www.offalyarchives.com/index.php/xrdn-p2t6-ky8x |website=offalyarchives.com}}</ref> A guidebook of 1829 mentions an 1823 monument at Lausanne, by the sculptor Gibson of Rome, to "Anna Maria Allott, nata Waller".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=John |title=A Glance at Some of the Beauties and Sublimities of Switzerland: With Excursive Remarks on the Various Objects of Interest, Presented During a Tour Through Its Picturesque Scenery |date=1829 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green |page=52 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hAaFvQJ2aE0C&pg=PA52 |language=en}}</ref>


In 1828 Allott bought from François Bonjour, a Parisian, a substantial property at [[Ouchy]] on [[Lake Geneva]], comprising two houses and land.<ref name="RHV">{{cite book |title=Revue historique vaudoise |date=1978 |page=96|volume=86-87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AAZpAAAAMAAJ |language=fr}}</ref> He gained a residence permit for Ouchy in March 1831, and one of his daughters died soon afterwards; he had an application for a monument accepted.<ref name="RHV"/> His wife and a daughter were buried in the Pierre de Plan cemetery at Ouchy, where he erected a memorial to them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Coghlan |first1=Francis |title=Coghlan's Belgium, Holland, the Rhine and Switzerland; the Fashionable German Watering Places ... Seventeenth Edition. Illustrated with Maps and Plans |date=1861 |publisher=Trübner & Company |page=202 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVxSq2JJ08UC&pg=PA202 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1828 Allott bought from François Bonjour, a Parisian, a substantial property at [[Ouchy]] on [[Lake Geneva]], comprising two houses and land.<ref name="RHV">{{cite book |title=Revue historique vaudoise |date=1978 |page=96|volume=86-87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AAZpAAAAMAAJ |language=fr}}</ref> He gained a residence permit for Ouchy in March 1831, and one of his daughters died soon afterwards; he had an application for a monument accepted.<ref name="RHV"/> His wife and a daughter were buried in the Pierre de Plan cemetery at Ouchy, where he erected a memorial to them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Coghlan |first1=Francis |title=Coghlan's Belgium, Holland, the Rhine and Switzerland; the Fashionable German Watering Places ... Seventeenth Edition. Illustrated with Maps and Plans |date=1861 |publisher=Trübner & Company |page=202 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVxSq2JJ08UC&pg=PA202 |language=en}}</ref>
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<blockquote>For the convenience of the Rev. R. Allott, who always "played first fiddle", and made the programme of performance for the weekly concerts, much of the music was kept at his house.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rogers |first1=Edward |title=Memoir of the Armagh Cathedral: With an Account of the Ancient City |date=1881 |publisher=W. and G. Baird |page=147 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>For the convenience of the Rev. R. Allott, who always "played first fiddle", and made the programme of performance for the weekly concerts, much of the music was kept at his house.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rogers |first1=Edward |title=Memoir of the Armagh Cathedral: With an Account of the Ancient City |date=1881 |publisher=W. and G. Baird |page=147 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>


Allott was the dedicatee of the two volumes of ''The Beauties of Purcell'' edited by [[John Clarke Whitfield]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Beauties of Purcell (Purcell, Henry) - IMSLP |url=https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Beauties_of_Purcell_(Purcell%2C_Henry) |website=imslp.org}}</ref> He, or his father, owned a first edition of [[Francesco Geminiani]]'s Sonatas Op. 4, now a rare work.<ref>{{cite book |title=Work 8: The Sonatas Opus 4 (1739)|chapter=The Sonatas Opus 4 1739 |chapter-url=https://geminiani.sites.uu.nl/work-8-the-sonatas-opus-4-1739/ |website=The Thirty-One Works of Francesco Geminiani}}</ref> He is tentatively identified as the purchaser in [[Piacenza]] in 1821 of north Italian counterpoint manuscripts, now in the [[British Library]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leal |first1=Sergio |last2=Germano |first2=Nayana Di Giuseppe |last3=Castro |first3=Rafael Y. |last4=Pompeo |first4=Samuel |last5=Gomes |first5=Flávio H. Monteiro |last6=Oliveira |first6=Leonardo K. de |last7=Gianesella |first7=Eduardo Flores |last8=Velho |first8=José Rodrigo Santos |last9=Iafelice |first9=Carlos C. |title=XX ANOS DO PPG EM MÚSICA DO IA-UNESP: I VOLUME |date=29 November 2023 |publisher=Tesseractum Editorial |isbn=978-65-89867-70-8 |page=166 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0GrmEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT166 |language=pt-BR}}</ref> He was one of the early subscribers to the [[Bach Gesellschaft]] set up in 1850.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Young |first1=Percy Marshall |title=The Bachs, 1500-1850 |date=1970 |publisher=Dent |isbn=978-0-460-03825-6 |page=296 |language=en}}</ref>
Allott was the dedicatee of the two volumes of ''The Beauties of Purcell'' edited by [[John Clarke Whitfield]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Beauties of Purcell (Purcell, Henry) - IMSLP |url=https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Beauties_of_Purcell_(Purcell%2C_Henry) |website=imslp.org}}</ref> He, or his father, owned a first edition of [[Francesco Geminiani]]'s Sonatas Op. 4, now a rare work.<ref>{{cite web |title=Work 8: The Sonatas Opus 4 (1739)|last= Rasch | first= Rudolf | publisher= Utrecht University |url=https://geminiani.sites.uu.nl/work-8-the-sonatas-opus-4-1739/ |website=The Thirty-One Works of Francesco Geminiani}}</ref> He is tentatively identified as the purchaser in [[Piacenza]] in 1821 of north Italian counterpoint manuscripts, now in the [[British Library]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leal |first1=Sergio |last2=Germano |first2=Nayana Di Giuseppe |last3=Castro |first3=Rafael Y. |last4=Pompeo |first4=Samuel |last5=Gomes |first5=Flávio H. Monteiro |last6=Oliveira |first6=Leonardo K. de |last7=Gianesella |first7=Eduardo Flores |last8=Velho |first8=José Rodrigo Santos |last9=Iafelice |first9=Carlos C. |title=XX ANOS DO PPG EM MÚSICA DO IA-UNESP: I VOLUME |date=29 November 2023 |publisher=Tesseractum Editorial |isbn=978-65-89867-70-8 |page=166 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0GrmEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT166 |language=pt-BR}}</ref> He was one of the early subscribers to the [[Bach Gesellschaft]] set up in 1850.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Young |first1=Percy Marshall |title=The Bachs, 1500-1850 |date=1970 |publisher=Dent |isbn=978-0-460-03825-6 |page=296 |language=en}}</ref>


==Sale of library==
==Sale of library==

Revision as of 19:46, 9 December 2023

Richard Allott junior (1782/3–1858) was an Anglo-Irish cleric and academic, known as a librarian and a musician at Armagh Cathedral, where he earned the nickname "Fiddling Dick", and as a music collector.[1]

Richard Allott senior

Richard Allott senior (1744/5–1832), his father, was the third son of Brian Allott (1693–1773), Rector of Kirkheaton;[2][3] he was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the later 18th and early 19th centuries.[4] Towards the end of his life he was in Switzerland, and he died at Beau-Rivage, Lausanne, aged 87.[3][5]

Early life

Allott was educated Beverley Grammar School. He was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1762, graduating B.A. there in 1766, and M.A. in 1769. He took degrees of B.D. (1776) and D.D. (1783) at Trinity College, Dublin.[3][6] He was Dean of Raphoe from 1795[7] until his death in 1832.[8]

Armagh

Ordained deacon in 1767, Allott became rector of Annaduff in Ireland. From 1771 to 1774 he was a prebendary of St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam. From 1774 he was precentor in Armagh Cathedral, as his son more prominently would be, and a prebendary there.[3][5] The position was taken over in 1802 by John Cleland (1755–1834).[9]

Allott married an Irish wife, Anna Maria Weller.[2] Their youngest daughter, Jane, was a watercolour artist.[10] Allott preached the fast sermon to the House of Commons on 26 February 1806.[11] It contained a suggestion that God was using Napoleon as a scourge for sinful Britain.[12]

Last years

In 1817 Allott was living in Orchard Street, near Portman Square in London.[13] He confirmed the 1822 baptism, according to Church of Ireland rites, of Charles William George Bury, future 3rd Earl of Charleville (1822–1859), in Geneva.[14] A guidebook of 1829 mentions an 1823 monument at Lausanne, by the sculptor Gibson of Rome, to "Anna Maria Allott, nata Waller".[15]

In 1828 Allott bought from François Bonjour, a Parisian, a substantial property at Ouchy on Lake Geneva, comprising two houses and land.[16] He gained a residence permit for Ouchy in March 1831, and one of his daughters died soon afterwards; he had an application for a monument accepted.[16] His wife and a daughter were buried in the Pierre de Plan cemetery at Ouchy, where he erected a memorial to them.[17]

Later developments

Allott's daughter Anna Maria died at Lausanne in 1852.[18] Louisa Beaufort, a cousin, was one of her executors; also a beneficiary, with Richard Allott junior.[19]

The Société immobilière d'Ouchy was founded in 1857 to build the Beau-Rivage Hotel on the former Allott property to the east of village of Ouchy, keeping the name it had been given.[20]

Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel, 2012 photograph

Life

Allott junior was educated at Harrow School, and admitted as a pensioner to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1801. He graduated B.A. in 1805, M.A. in 1808, and became a Fellow there in 1807.[21] He succeeded William Lodge DD (1742–1813) at the Armagh Library founded by Primate Richard Robinson, taking up the position on 3 September 1814.[22][23] In 1815 he prepared the first significant catalogue of the library's manuscripts, nearly 5,000 in number.[24]

In 1825 Allott, with Thomas Romney Robinson, was brought onto the committee attempting to set up a Mechanics' Institute in Armagh. The main proponent responsible for involving Anglican clerics in the venture was George Ensor, Allott being considered influential with them. Over the next year or two, clerical support was withdrawn, and the Institute failed.[25]

In 1830 Allott was elected a Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, replacing John Henry Renouard who had died.[26][27] In 1834, on the death of John Cleland, he took over as precentor of Armagh Cathedral, and Rector of Killeavy, giving up at this point his post as librarian.[9][28] He held these positions to the end of his life.[21] In his capacity as a Senior Fellow of Trinity, he attended a dinner in Cambridge for the incognito Frederick Augustus II of Saxony in 1844.[29]

Death and legacy

Allott died at Armagh in 1858.[30] He was buried in the south aisle of Armagh Cathedral, where a window was dedicated to his memory. He had been the senior fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1853.[31] At the time in 1860 when the donations for the window were being collected, the Newry Telegraph commented adversely, saying that from Allott's large estate nothing was left to Irish charitable causes.[32] The window was installed in 1862; the lower part refers to the story of Saul and David in 1 Samuel 16.[33]

Memorial window in Armagh Cathedral to Richard Allott[34]

Musical interests

Leslie's Armagh Clergy and Parishes described Allott as "a most accomplished musician as well as scholar".[28] On 17 December 1824 he directed a concert in the Music Hall, Vicar's Hill, Armagh with a programme of music by Emanuele d'Astorga, Corelli, Gluck, Handel, Benedetto Marcello, Mozart, Marcantonio Negri and Pergolesi, given to a distinguished audience.[35] Edward Rogers wrote in 1881 of the music of the Armagh Cathedral Choir and its Music Hall:

For the convenience of the Rev. R. Allott, who always "played first fiddle", and made the programme of performance for the weekly concerts, much of the music was kept at his house.[36]

Allott was the dedicatee of the two volumes of The Beauties of Purcell edited by John Clarke Whitfield.[37] He, or his father, owned a first edition of Francesco Geminiani's Sonatas Op. 4, now a rare work.[38] He is tentatively identified as the purchaser in Piacenza in 1821 of north Italian counterpoint manuscripts, now in the British Library.[39] He was one of the early subscribers to the Bach Gesellschaft set up in 1850.[40]

Sale of library

Allott's musical library was announced as for sale on 26 July 1858, by Puttick & Simpson, in particular including editions of Handel.[41] Murphy and Smaczny, however, write "It must also be noted that a large portion of the early nineteenth-century cathedral music was mistakenly sold with the possessions of Richard Allott [...]".[42]

The musical library was sold on 2 August 1858, by Puttick;[43] and the rest of Allott's library on 29 November by Leigh Sotheby.[44]

Notes

  1. ^ Paterson, T. G. F. (1975). Harvest Home: The Last Sheaf : a Selection from the Writings of T. G. F. Paterson Relating to County Armagh. Armagh County Museum, T. G. F. Paterson Memorial Fund Committee. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-9504780-0-5.
  2. ^ a b Familiae minorum gentium. London: Mitchell and Hughes. 1894–1896. p. 501.
  3. ^ a b c d "Allott, Richard (ALT762R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ National Archives
  5. ^ a b "Allott, Richard, 1745-1832 (clergyman), ArchiveSearch". archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk.
  6. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p12: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  7. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p363 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
  8. ^ Belfast News Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Tuesday, December 25, 1832; Issue 9968. (1027 words). British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900
  9. ^ a b "Cleland, John, Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie.
  10. ^ Allott, Jane (1800). "[The Castle formerly the Bishop's Palace, Raphoe, Donegal]". catalogue.nli.ie.
  11. ^ Allott, Richard (1806). A Sermon Preached Before the Honourable House of Commons, at the Church of St. Margaret, Westminster, on Wednesday, February 26, 1806, Being the Day Appointed for a General Fast. Luke Hansard; and sold by Stockdale, and Hatchard: and at Cambridge, by Deighton.
  12. ^ Coffey, John (2012). "'Tremble, Britannia!': Fear, Providence and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1758—1807". The English Historical Review. 127 (527): 870. doi:10.1093/ehr/ces149. ISSN 0013-8266. JSTOR 23272689.
  13. ^ "Old Bailey Proceedings. 15th September 1845". Old Bailey Proceedings Online. 2018 [September 1845]. t18450915.
  14. ^ "Baptism of Charles William George Bury". offalyarchives.com.
  15. ^ Murray, John (1829). A Glance at Some of the Beauties and Sublimities of Switzerland: With Excursive Remarks on the Various Objects of Interest, Presented During a Tour Through Its Picturesque Scenery. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. p. 52.
  16. ^ a b Revue historique vaudoise (in French). Vol. 86–87. 1978. p. 96.
  17. ^ Coghlan, Francis (1861). Coghlan's Belgium, Holland, the Rhine and Switzerland; the Fashionable German Watering Places ... Seventeenth Edition. Illustrated with Maps and Plans. Trübner & Company. p. 202.
  18. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review. Bradbury, Evans. 1852. p. 210.
  19. ^ Scott, Breda (2016). "Small Treasures: The Production, Retail and Consumption of Jewellery in Dublin, c.1770 to c.1870". mural.maynoothuniversity.ie. Maynooth University. p. 239.
  20. ^ Les Monuments d'art et d'histoire (in French). Vol. 71 du Canton de Vaud. Birkhauser. 1981. p. 58. ISBN 978-3-7643-1208-4.
  21. ^ a b "Allott, Richard (ALT801R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  22. ^ Dean, James (1828). "Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Armagh Library" (PDF). The Governors and Guardians. p. 3.
  23. ^ Reeves, William (1895). "Memoir of Rev. William Lodge, LL.D." Ulster Journal of Archaeology. 1 (2): 89. JSTOR 20563541.
  24. ^ Cole, Richard C. (1974). "Community Lending Libraries in Eighteenth-Century Ireland". The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy. 44 (2): 118. ISSN 0024-2519. JSTOR 4306377.
  25. ^ Duffy, Séamus S. (1988). "The Armagh Mechanics' Institute (1825-1831)". Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society. 13 (1): 122–172. doi:10.2307/29745300. ISSN 0488-0196. JSTOR 29745300.
  26. ^ "University Intelligence". Sun (London). 15 March 1830. p. 3.
  27. ^ "Renouard, John Henry (RNRT776JH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  28. ^ a b Leslie, James B. (1911). Armagh Clergy and Parishes: being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Armagh, from the earilest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, &c. Dundalk: W. Tempest. p. 35.
  29. ^ "The King of Saxony's Visit to Cambridge". Cambridge Chronicle and Journal. 22 June 1844. p. 2.
  30. ^ Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer. Edward Cave. 1858. p. 681.
  31. ^ Boase, Frederic (1965). Modern English Biography. Vol. IV. Frank Cass & Co. Ltd. p. 104.
  32. ^ "The Cathedral of Armagh". Newry Telegraph. 15 December 1860. p. 3.
  33. ^ "The Church". Dublin Evening Mail. 29 August 1862. p. 2.
  34. ^ "Window - W11 - Armagh Cathedral, St Patrick - Gloine - Stained glass in the Church of Ireland". www.gloine.ie.
  35. ^ "Concert of Ancient Music - Armagh". Belfast Commercial Chronicle. 22 December 1824. p. 4.
  36. ^ Rogers, Edward (1881). Memoir of the Armagh Cathedral: With an Account of the Ancient City. W. and G. Baird. p. 147.
  37. ^ "The Beauties of Purcell (Purcell, Henry) - IMSLP". imslp.org.
  38. ^ Rasch, Rudolf. "Work 8: The Sonatas Opus 4 (1739)". The Thirty-One Works of Francesco Geminiani. Utrecht University.
  39. ^ Leal, Sergio; Germano, Nayana Di Giuseppe; Castro, Rafael Y.; Pompeo, Samuel; Gomes, Flávio H. Monteiro; Oliveira, Leonardo K. de; Gianesella, Eduardo Flores; Velho, José Rodrigo Santos; Iafelice, Carlos C. (29 November 2023). XX ANOS DO PPG EM MÚSICA DO IA-UNESP: I VOLUME (in Brazilian Portuguese). Tesseractum Editorial. p. 166. ISBN 978-65-89867-70-8.
  40. ^ Young, Percy Marshall (1970). The Bachs, 1500-1850. Dent. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-460-03825-6.
  41. ^ The Athenaeum. J. Lection. 1858. p. 67.
  42. ^ Murphy, Michael; Smaczny, Jan (2007). Music in Nineteenth-century Ireland. Four Courts Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-84682-024-3.
  43. ^ King, A. Hyatt (2 January 1963). Some British Collectors of Music C.1600-1960. Cambridge University Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-521-05886-5.
  44. ^ S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (1858). Catalogue of the Library of the Late Rev. Richard Allott, D.D. Fellow of Trinity College, and Precentor of Armagh ... and the Library of the Late Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. ...: Which Will be Sold by Auction ... on Monday, 29th of November, 1858, and Two Following Days. Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson.
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