Allen Apsley (administrator)
Allen Apsley (* 1567 in London, † 1630 in London ) was an English merchant, co-founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Lord in Feltwell and Lord - Lieutenant of the Tower.
Apsley was born as the son of merchant John Apsley in the City of London. In 1605 he was knighted and appointed by Charles I in 1616 to the Lord- Lieutent the Tower of London and Tower Division. With his wife Lucy had two children: Allen Apsley Junior and Lucy Hutchinson.
Apsley advocated that his daughter, unusually for the time, got a good education and was able to do with it later career as a writer. Lucy Hutchinson described her father later as the father of all prisoners in the Tower, where he had extraordinary " compassion and kindness " met with. He also showed enthusiasm for any kind of education. Apsleys wife Lucy paid the experiments conducted by Walter Raleigh in his imprisonment in the Tower.
As Apsley died, he bequeathed to his descendants huge debts. His own accounts were interwoven with those of the British government and those of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, so that creditors have been pursuing for years the family.
Apsley is in the church of St. Peter ad Vincula buried on the grounds of the Tower.