Sir Alexander Allan, 1st Baronet (c. 1764 – 14 September 1820) was a British painter and politician. Arthur William Devis - Sir Alexander Allan - F64

He joined the East India Company as a cadet in 1779 and had been promoted to captain when he served in the

Fourth Mysore War The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore against the British East India Company and the Hyderabad Deccan in 1798–99. This was the final conflict of the four Anglo-Mysore Wars. The British captured ...

in 1798 as Deputy Quartermaster-General. He painted numerous water colours of the campaign. On his return to England he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1803 to 1806 and 1807 to 1820. He was a director of the East India Company from 1814 to 1817 and 1819 to his death. He was made a baronet on 18 September 1819, of Kingsgate in the County of Kent. The title became extinct upon his death in 1820. He never married.

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