William B. Allison (1829–1908), early leader of the Iowa Republican Party
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William Henry Allison (1838–?), Canadian politician and school lands commissioner
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The BBC had originally approached Bleasdale in 1981 to adapt William Allison and John Fairley's 1978 book The Monocled Mutineer, which had at the time of its publication prompted questions in Parliament about the events of the Étaples Mutiny, which led to the discovery that all records of the Étaples Board of Enquiry had been destroyed long since.