ALLEN, SIR HUGH PERCY (1869— ), director of the Royal College of Music and professor of music at Oxford university, was born at Reading, Dec. 23,1869, and received his first appointment as organist of St. Saviour's, Reading, at the age of 1. After holding many similar appointments he became closely associated with the music of both Cambridge and Oxford, in the one case as organ scholar of Christ's College and in the other as organist of New College. In the latter capacity he dis played characteristic energy and enthusiasm in developing the musical life of the university. Concurrently he became known to the London musical public as conductor of the Bach choir, and on the death of Sir Hubert Parry (q.v.) in 1918 he was chosen to succeed him at the Royal College of Music. He succeeded Sir Walter Parratt as professor of music at Oxford in the same year. He was knighted in 192o, and received the K.C.V.O. in 1928 and the G.C.V.O. in 1935.