Identity:

E. H. Allen married Mariana, daughter of the artist, Rudolph Lehmann.

Life:

In 1878 he began forming a library of works on the violin. From 1879-1881 he studied violin-making under Chanot. His numerous books on violins, palmistry, novels, and poems and translated the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, were published between 1882 and 1937.

Meanwhile, in 1884 he was admitted as a solicitor, and was Special Commissioner to Italy on behalf of Historic Loan Department of Music and Inventions Exhibition 1885. He lectured in the United States from 1886-1889. He was elected 'socio onorario e benemerito' of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome for his bibliography of violins.

Bibliography:

Brown, James A., and Stephen S. Stratton , British Musical Biography, 1897.