Allestree, Or Allestrey, Richard, an English divine, born in Uppington, Shropshire, in March, 1610, died in January, 1681. During the civil war he left his studies at Oxford to serve as a soldier in the king's army. Toward the conclusion of the war he took orders, and was one of those expelled when the parliament in 1648 sent visitors to Oxford to demand the submission of the university. He found an asylum in the family of Lord Newport in Shropshire, and after the battle of Worcester he was fixed upon by the royalists as a proper person to convey despatches and have a conference with the king at Rouen; and he was afterward the constant medium of communication with him. Soon after the return of Charles II.' he was made canon of Christ's church, king's chaplain, regius professor of divinity, and in 1665 provost of Eton. Forty of his sermons were published in 1684, with a life by Bishop Fell.