Hospital (later the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases) and was moved to the hospital's new building at Combe Park in 2019. 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. The Prior Park Landscape Garden and Palladian bridge are cared for by the National Trust, who brought the garden back from dereliction in 1993. He is also remembered in Ralph Allen School, one of the city's state secondary schools. 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. Henry Fielding used Allen as the model for Squire Allworthy in the novel Tom Jones. Bibliography Hopkins, A.E. (ed.) (1960) Ralph Allen's own narrative, 1720–1761 See also Bath Postal Museum References External links Ralph Allen at the National Portrait Gallery, London Allen, Ralph (1694–1764) Philanthropist at the National Register of Archives Prior Park Landscape Garden, National Trust 1693 births 1764 deaths British postmasters 18th-century English businesspeople English philanthropists People from St Columb Major Postal pioneers Mayors of Bath, Somerset 18th-century British philanthropists Combe Down