Editing Ralph Allen (section)

==Commemoration==
[[File:Geograph 2664049 Memorial to Ralph Allen, Claverton churchyard.jpg|thumb|Allen's tomb in Claverton]]

After Allen died in Bath on 29 June 1764,<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle=Allen, Ralph |last=Tregellas |first=Walter Hawken |authorlink=Walter Hawken Tregellas|volume=01}}</ref> he was buried in a pyramid-topped tomb in [[Claverton, Somerset|Claverton]] churchyard, on the outskirts of the city.<ref>{{NHLE | desc=Mausoleum to Ralph Allen, in churchyard to south of St Mary's Church | num=1214536 | accessdate=14 January 2008 }}</ref> A marble bust stood in the Mineral Water Hospital (later the [[Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases]]) and was moved to the hospital's new building at Combe Park in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bathecho.co.uk/news/health/mineral-water-history-makes-way-ruh-site-87790/|title=Mineral Water Hospital history makes its way to the RUH's Combe Park site|date=18 December 2019|website=Bath Echo|language=en-GB|access-date=30 January 2020}}</ref>

His name is commemorated in Ralph Allen Drive which runs past his former home at [[Prior Park]].  Now a busy road from [[Combe Down]] village to Bath city centre, this was the route by which the stone from his quarries at Combe Down was sent on wooden sledges down to the River Avon. [[Prior Park College]], a private school for 11- to 18-year-olds, is housed in Allen's former home and incorporates a boys' boarding house named Allen House.<ref>{{cite web|title=Our History|url=http://www.priorparkcollege.com/about/our-history|publisher=Prior Park College|access-date=20 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121071331/http://www.priorparkcollege.com/about/our-history|archive-date=21 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Prior Park Landscape Garden]] and Palladian bridge are cared for by the [[National Trust]], who brought the garden back from dereliction in 1993.<ref name="pandghistory">{{cite web|title=History: Prior Park, Bath, England|url=http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/2709/history|website=Parks and Gardens UK|publisher=Parks and Gardens Data Services Ltd.|access-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226220051/http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/2709/history|archive-date=26 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ntdev">{{cite web|title=Development of the garden at Prior Park|url=http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1356402532573/|publisher=National Trust|access-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403195921/http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1356402532573/|archive-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> He is also remembered in [[Ralph Allen School]], one of the city's state secondary schools.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ralphallenschool.com/32/about-our-school|title=About our School|publisher=Ralph Allen School|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120182101/http://www.ralphallenschool.com/32/about-our-school|archive-date=20 January 2018|access-date=20 January 2018}}</ref>

The Ralph Allen CornerStone in Combe Down village opened in the autumn of 2013.  This houses the archives of the Combe Down Heritage Society and provides a community hub and information centre as part of the legacy of the project to infill the stone mines underneath the village.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ralph Allen CornerStone|url=http://www.ralphallencornerstone.org.uk/|publisher=Ralph Allen CornerStone|access-date=20 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208094014/http://www.ralphallencornerstone.org.uk/|archive-date=8 December 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Writer [[Henry Fielding]] used Allen as the model for [[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling#List of characters|Squire Allworthy]] in the 1749 novel ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]''.<ref name="postmus"/>