Protestant Exiles from France/Book First - Chapter 15 - Dallen

This surname occurs among the members of the French Church of Norwich as early as 1602, in which year a daughter of Martin Dallen was baptized. The name, Dallain, which appears among refugees naturalized in 1682, is not the same, because its true spelling seems to have been D’Allain. There was a felt-maker in Edinburgh, Thomas Dallin, in 1705, in a factory presided over by a French refugee; the burial of Dallin’s child is in the record of Greyfriars’ Churchyard. It is in the latter form that the name survived. The Annual Register for 1880 notes the death, on 11th November, at the age of forty, of Thomas Francis Dallin, Public Orator of the University of Oxford since 1877, Fellow and Tutor of Queen’s College, and one of the secretaries of the Oxford University Commission.