Captain John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen PC (Ire)

Privy Council of Ireland

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 (13 February 1661 – 8 November 1726) was an Irish peer and politician.

He was the son of Sir Joshua Allen.

In 1691 he was appointed High Sheriff of County Dublin

High Sheriff of County Dublin

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 and then represented Dublin County

Dublin County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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 as an MP three times, from 1692 to 1693, from 1703 to 1713 and from 1715 to 1717. Allen sat also as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Carlow County

Carlow County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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 between 1795 and 1703 and then for Wicklow County between 1713 and 1715. On 28 August 1717, he was created Baron Allen, of Stillorgan

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, in County Dublin

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, and Viscount Allen in County Kildare

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.

He married Mary FitzGerald, daughter of Hon. Robert FitzGerald, son of George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare

George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare

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 and Lady Jane Boyle, on 23 July 1684. They had two children.

• Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen
  Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen
  Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen LLD was an Irish peer and politician.He was the son of John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen and succeeded to his father's titles on 8 November 1726. Between 1709 and 1727, he represented Kildare County in the Irish House of Commons.He married Margaret du Pass on 18...
  
  1685-1742
• Hon. Richard A. Allen b. bet. 1687 - 1697