cardinal allen trust
Lancashire
The school is named after Cardinal William Allen, a Lancashire man, who was born
in 1532 and is known to have lived as a young boy at Rossall near to the site of
the school. His determination not to abandon his Catholic faith during the reign
of Elizabeth I caused William to flee to the continent where he founded the
English Seminary at Douai and the Venerable English College in Rome in order
that young Englishmen could be trained as priests and return to England to keep
alive the Catholic faith.
