Joshua Allen, 6th Viscount Allen, 1838 lithograph

Joshua William Allen, 6th Viscount Allen MA (c. 1782 – 21 September 1845), was an Irish peer and dandy.

Life

He was the son of Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Allen. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1801.[1]

Allen was a Guards officer in the Peninsular War, noted for his conduct at the battle of Talavera. He acquired the nickname "King" Allen.[2] He succeeded to the titles of 6th Viscount Allen, County Kildare, and 6th Baron Allen of Stillorgan, on 1 February 1816.[3]

Viscount Allen never married;[1] and on his death his titles became extinct.[4]

Dandy

Allen was a prominent London dandy, supposed to have said that "the English could make nothing well but a kitchen poker".[5] At White's, he succeeded to the bow window place of honour, once occupied by Beau Brummell, after William Arden, 2nd Baron Alvanley.[6]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Allen, Hon. Joshua William" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  2. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward (1910). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant. Vol. I. St. Catherine Press, Limited. p. 111 note.
  3. ↑ Debrett, John (1822). The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland: In Two Volumes. Scotland and Ireland. Vol. II. F. C. and J. Rivington, St. Paul's Churchyard and Waterloo Place. p. 1109.
  4. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward (1887). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant. Vol. I. G. Bell & sons. p. 72.
  5. ↑ Fitzgerald, Percy (1881). The Life of George the Fourth, Including His Letters and Opinions: With a View of the Men, Manners, and Politics of His Reign. Vol. I. Harper & Brothers. p. 664.
  6. ↑ Erbe, Günter (2002). Dandys-- Virtuosen der Lebenskunst: eine Geschichte des mondänen Lebens (in German). Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. p. 56. ISBN 978-3-412-05602-5.


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