Captain Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Allen (26 April 1728 – 1 February 1816), was an

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Life

The son of Hon. Richard A. Allen and Dorothy Green, and grandson of

John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen Captain John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen, (13 February 1660 – 8 November 1726), was an Irish peerage, Irish peer and politician. He was born in Dublin, the son of Sir Joshua Allen, and educated at Trinity College Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses: a r ...

, he succeeded to the title of 5th Viscount Allen,

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, and its subsidiary titles, on 10 November 1753, on the death of his brother, the 4th Viscount, who had died without issue. He gained the rank of captain in 1758 in the service of the 37th Regiment, under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, and fought in the

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in 1759. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for

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from 1762 to 1770.

Family

He married Frances Elizabeth Barry (d. 11 August 1833), on 5 August 1781. Daughter of Gaynor Barry Esq. They had two children. * Hon. Letitia Dorothea Allen (died 14 June 1878); she married 17 May 1806 William Herbert, Dean of Manchester. * Joshua William Allen, 6th Viscount Allen (born c 1782–1845)

Notes

Allen, Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Allen, Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Hereditary peers elected to the House of Commons British MPs 1761–1768 British MPs 1768–1774 Members of the Irish House of Lords Joshua 5 {{Ireland-viscount-stub