ALLEINE, JOSEPH (1634-1668), English Nonconformist divine, was born at Devizes, Wiltshire, and educated at Oxford, where he became a fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi. He was curate to George Newton, vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, from 1655 to 1662, when both he and his vicar were ejected for nonconformity. He was several times imprisoned for preaching during the remaining six years of his life, which were spent in wandering from one place of temporary safety to another. He died on Nov. 17, 1668. Alleine was one of the best loved of the Puritan preachers, and a considerable scholar. His Alarm to the Unconverted (1672) had an enormous circulation.
See Life, edited by Baxter ; Joseph Alleine : his Companions and Times, by Charles Stanford (i861) ; Wood's Athenae, iii. 819.