James McGrigor Allan


James McGrigor Allan was an English anthropologist and writer.

Biography

McGrigor was the son of 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 also argue that woman's natural structure don't allow them to do so. 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 a member of the Anthropological Society of London. His younger brother was the poet Peter John Allan.

Works

Fiction
Non-fiction
Selected articles
Miscellany