Kenneth James Allardyce (9 April 1881 – 14 April 1937) was a British colonial administrator in Fiji.
Biography Allardyce was born in Aberdeen in 1881,William Johnston (1894) A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of James Young, Merchant Burgess of Aberdeen and Rachel Cruickshank His Wife, 1697-1893, with Notes on Many of the Families with which They are Connected, University Press, p18 and was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Wellington College. He joined his brother William in Fiji in 1898 and became a member of the civil service, starting as a clerk.Death of K.J. Allardyce Pacific Islands Monthly, May 1937, p71 In 1902 he was made chief clerk and inspector.Fiji The Daily Telegraph, 10 January 1902 He later became a District Commissioner in Lomaiviti, then Native Commissioner in 1914. Shortly after becoming Native Commissioner, he was appointed to the Legislative Council.Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1914, p85 He subsequently became Secretary for Native Affairs.
During World War I he headed the Fiji Labour Corps, attaining the rank of captain.Charles Prestwood Lucas (1924) The Empire at War: Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Humphrey Milford, p395 He was subsequently awarded an MBE for his service."Aberdeen man's death on south sea island", The Scotsman, 18 May 1937
After retiring from the civil service in 1920, he became a coconut planter.Labor in the Solomons The Daily Telegraph, 15 April 1922 He was sent to the Solomon Islands in 1922 as a special commissioner to investigate labour conditions.Brij V. Lal, Doug Munro & Edward D. Beechert (1993) Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation, University of Hawaii Press, p150 He also briefly returned to the civil service as Acting District Commissioner in Lau and Resident Commissioner in Rotuma. He died in 1937.
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