W. Allan, Bachelor of Science (BSc) and Master of Arts (MA), was a senior assistant in the County Works Department of Edinburgh, Scotland, and at the East of Scotland College of Agriculture. He had practical training in farming as well as experience in teaching when he was appointed vice-principal of the College of Agriculture at Elsenburg (near Stellenbosch) in 1907. In January 1908 he became acting principal of the college in the place of J.N. Jack*, and from 1909 to 1912 served as principal.

He is probably the same person as William Allan, MA, BSc, of Edinburgh, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1904.

List of sources:
Cape of Good Hope. Civil service list, 1910.

Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Report of the Director of Agriculture, 1907-1909.

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 9 December 1904, Vol. LXV(2). Retrieved on 2022/12/5 from https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/65/2/103/993610

National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS). http://www.national.archives.gov.za/naairs.htm Documents relating to W. Allan / Allan Elsenburg.

South Africa. Department of Agricultural Development, Winter Rainfall Region. Elsenburg: Yesterday, today and tomorrow (Commemorative edition, 1898-1978). Pretoria: Department of Agricultural Technical Services, 1978.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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