Richard Alleyn (April 29, 1835 – August 16, 1883)
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/243369252/richard-alleyn] was an
Irish-born lawyer, judge, educator and political figure in
Quebec. He represented
Québec-Ouest in the
Legislative Assembly of Quebec
The Legislative Assembly of Quebec (French: ''Assemblée législative du Québec'') was the name of the lower house of Quebec's legislature from 1867 to December 31, 1968, when it was renamed the National Assembly of Quebec. At the same time, t ...
from 1877 to 1878 as a
Conservative.
He was born in
Trabolgan
Trabolgan (foaled 1 June 1998) is a retired, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in National Hunt racing. In a racing career which was seriously disrupted by injuries and other health problems, he won five times fro ...
,
County Cork, the son of Richard Israël Alleyn and Margaret O'Donovan, and came to
Lower Canada with his family in 1838. Alleyn was educated at the
Séminaire de Québec and the
Université Laval. He was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1857 and set up a practice at
Quebec City with
Alexandre Chauveau. He was crown attorney there for several years. Alleyn served on the municipal council from 1863 to 1865. In 1873, he was named
Queen's Counsel. He was elected to the Quebec assembly in an 1877 by-election but was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1878. Alleyn became a professor of criminal law at Université Laval in 1878. In 1881, he was named judge in the
Quebec Superior Court
The Superior Court of Quebec (french: Cour supérieure du Québec) is a superior trial court in the Province of Quebec, in Canada. It consists of 157 judges who are appointed by the federal government. Appeals from this court are taken to the Qu ...
for Rimouski district. Alleyn served as an officer in the militia, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was married twice: to Louisa Joséphine Lindsay in 1865 and to Catherine-Louise-Josephte, the daughter of
Alexandre-René Chaussegros de Léry, in 1877. He died in Rimouski at the age of 48.
His brother
Charles Joseph served in the legislative assembly for the Province of Canada and was mayor of Quebec City.
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External links
Richard Alleyn, Ville de Montréal
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1835 births
1883 deaths
Conservative Party of Quebec MNAs
Judges in Quebec
Politicians from County Cork
Politicians from Quebec City
Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec
Anglophone Quebec people
Academic staff of Université Laval
Université Laval alumni