Viscount Allen

Viscount Allen , in the County of Kildare , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Ireland .

The title was created on August 28, 1717 for former MPs in the Irish House of Commons John Allen . Along with the Viscount title , he was awarded the subordinate title of Baron Allen , of Stillorgan in the County of Dublin .

Both titles expired on the childless death of his great-grandson, the 6th Viscount, on September 21, 1845.

List of Viscounts Allen (1717)

• John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen (1661-1726)
• Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen (1685-1742)
• John Allen, 3rd Viscount Allen (1713-1745)
• John Allen, 4th Viscount Allen († 1753)
• Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Allen (1728-1816)
• Joshua Allen, 6th Viscount Allen (around 1782–1845)

See also

• Baron Allen of Hurtwood (1932)
• Baron Allen of Fallowfield (Life Peerage, 1974)
• Baron Allen of Abbeydale (Life Peerage, 1976)
• Baron Allen of Kensington (Life Peerage, 2013)

Web links

• Allen, Viscount (I, 1717-1845) at Cracroft's Peerage
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page