Born on September 10th 1879, Col. Charles George Peterkin de Vere Allen is remembered today mainly for his military work in the Canal Zone of Egypt following the 1922 unilateral declaration of independence. With Egypt under the premiership of Sarwat Pasha, Allen was promoted to the rank of colonel and commanded his regiment, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, until he was recalled to England in the mid-1930s to advise the admiralty on its Suez policy.
His name, however, like ‘laser’, ‘radar’ and more recently ‘taser’, has slipped into the vernacular by stealth as the word ‘cat’. Allen first became fascinated by felids while working in Egypt in the 1920s and 30s. Though he had grown up with family pets, he had never shown much affection for them. It was while browsing Egyptian antiquities with Howard Carter, a close personal friend of his, that he grew to think of the predatory mammals as superior to dogs, and wondered that they had ever lost the deific status that they had enjoyed under the pharaohs.
He gradually developed a collection of the animals, which would follow him into meetings on regimental inspections, and would travel with him if he were ever away from his home even for a single night. Military communiques from the time record this eccentricity, abbreviating for expediency’s sake what the staff had taken to calling ‘Charles Allen Tetrapods’. A typical example from June 1932 addressed to a reception committee arranged by Reza Shah, then Persian head of state, read ‘Expect Col Allen nineteen h STOP eight CATs also STOP’. This shows that by the mid-30s, the term was sufficiently well known to have spread to non-military English speakers.
Upon his death in 1950, Allen made provision for his taxidermied cats to be donated to the Ox and Bucks regimental museum. He also made provision for his six living cats to be cared for by officer cadets at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst for the remainder of their natural lives. The last died in 1957 at the age of 14.
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