While some were martyred for their religious beliefs during the bitter seventeenth century conflict between Crown and Covenant, others have distinguished themselves across a colourful range of more peaceful pursuits.
The Allan name is also to be found on the landscape in the form of the name of a small town in Canada’s west central Saskatchewan, as a commune in the Drôme department in south-eastern France, and through Bridge of Allan – a town to the north of Stirling in the ancient Allan homeland of Scotland.
