James McGrigor Allan


James McGrigor Allan was a British anthropologist and writer.

Biography

McGrigor was the son of Dr. Colin Allan, at one time chief medical officer of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Jane Gibbon. He opposed women's right to vote and argued that universal suffrage would cause the disruption of domestic ties, the desecration of marriage and the dissolution of the family. He attributed the agitation for equal rights to the problem of the "superfluous women" on account of emigration and the growing objection of middle and upper-class men to marriage.
He was member of the Anthropological Society of London. His younger brother was the poet Peter John Allan.

Works

Fiction
Non-fiction
Selected articles
Miscellany