Edward Wilfred Allfrey [also known as E. W. Allfrey] was born in Blackheath, Kent, [now London], England in 1869. He read Classics at Trinity College, Oxford and subsequently practised as an architect from the late 1890s onwards.
A photograph plan of the club house of Oxford University Golf Club, designed by Allfrey are featured in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1907 (p.10). Allfrey is known to have had offices at 26 York Place, London (1898), 2 St. Michael's Chambers, Oxford, Oxfordshire (1906-1908), and 57 High Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire (1921).
Allfrey was also a painter and exhibited architectural subjects at the Royal Academy, Arlington Gallery and Cooling & Sons Gallery in London.
Allfrey's residence was given as Tregarthen's Hotel, St Mary, Scilly, England in 1891; York Place, Portman Square, Marylebone West, London in 1901; Plas Newydd, Villa Road, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex in 1911; and Imley Cottage, Chobham, Surrey in 1924 and 1953. He died in Chobham, Surrey on 26 July 1953.