Viscount Allenby
Viscount Allenby , of Megiddo and Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .
The Viscount family residence is Newnham Lodge near Hook in Hampshire .
Award
The title was awarded on October 7, 1919 to Field Marshal Edmund Allenby , who had achieved great successes against the Ottoman troops as commander of the Allied troops in Palestine during the First World War . The place name Megiddo in the title refers to the victorious battle of Megiddo (1918) .
Since Allenby's only son had died on the Western Front in the First World War in 1917 , when the title was awarded it was determined that this title could also be passed on to the younger brother of the first Viscount and his male descendants if he had no sons himself. The Viscount dignity was accordingly passed on to a nephew of the first Viscount in 1936.
Subordinate title
The Viscountcy has no subordinate titles.
List of Viscounts Allenby (1919)
- Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861–1936)
- Dudley Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby (1903-1984)
- Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby (1931-2014)
- Henry Allenby, 4th Viscount Allenby (* 1968)
Heir Apparent is the son of the current owner , Harry Michael Edmund Allenby (* 2000).