Joshua Allen, 6th Viscount Allen

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

Joshua Allen, 6th Viscount Allen, 1838 lithograph

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. Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Allen, Hon. Joshua William" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – 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.

External links

• Kingsley, Nick (19 January 2014). "Landed families of Britain and Ireland: (103) Allen of Stillorgan, Viscounts Allen". Landed families of Britain and Ireland.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Joshua Allen	Viscount Allen 1816–1845	Extinct