Patrick Allen

Also known as Sir Patrick Allen, Patrick Linton Allen, Sir Patrick Linton Allen

Jamaican politician, current Governor-General of Jamaica

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Born: 1965
Works: 24

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Automatic y'all
Margaret Mitchell
Literary Nashville
Literary Washington, D.C.
The Ashes Trivia Book by Patrick Allen

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Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1985-05-02

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Article

Sir Patrick Linton Allen ON GCMG CD KStJ (born 7 February 1951) is a Jamaican statesman and former Seventh-day Adventist pastor, who has serving as the sixth and current governor-general of Jamaica since 26 February 2009.

The fourth of five children in a family of subsistence farmers, Allen spent over a decade as a teacher and principal, before leaving education to be trained as an Adventist minister at Andrews University in the United States. After becoming a pastor, Allen went on to serve in a number of leadership roles within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, eventually becoming the leader of the West Indies Union of Seventh-day Adventists, which had jurisdiction over Jamaica, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.