Alfred Allen, Baron Allen of Fallowfield

Alfred Walter Henry Allen, Baron Allen of Fallowfield, CBE (7 July 1914 – 14 January 1985) was a British trade unionist and governor of the BBC.

Early life Born in Bristol, he was educated at East Bristol School and worked then for the Bristol Co-operative Society until 1940, when he joined the Royal Air Force. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Allen left the Force as a sergeant and was chosen as an area organiser of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers in the year thereafter. In the 1967 Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Allen was a member of the general council of the Trades Union Congress and in 1974 was nominated its president. On 10 July of the latter year, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Allen of Fallowfield, of Fallowfield, in Greater Manchester. In 1977, Allen served in the Board of Governors of the BBC.

In 1940, he married Ruby Millicent Hounsell and they had a son and a daughter.