Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo

Megiddo (place)

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 and of Felixstowe

Felixstowe

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 in the County of Suffolk

Suffolk

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, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 7 October 1919 for the prominent military commander Field Marshal

Field Marshal

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 Sir Edmund Allenby

Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby

Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby GCB, GCMG, GCVO was a British soldier and administrator most famous for his role during the First World War, in which he led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the conquest of Palestine and Syria in 1917 and 1918.Allenby, nicknamed...

, with remainder, in default of male issue of his own, to his younger brother Captain Frederick Claude Hynman Allenby and his heirs male lawfully begotten. He was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew, the second Viscount. , the title is held by the latter's son, the third Viscount, who succeeded in 1984. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

Hereditary peer

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s that remain in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

House of Lords Act 1999

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, and sits as a crossbencher.

The family seat is Newnham Lodge, near Hook

Hook, North Hampshire

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, Hampshire

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.

Viscounts Allenby (1919)

• Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
  Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
  Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby GCB, GCMG, GCVO was a British soldier and administrator most famous for his role during the First World War, in which he led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the conquest of Palestine and Syria in 1917 and 1918.Allenby, nicknamed...
  
   (1861–1936)
• Dudley Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby
  Dudley Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby
  Lt.-Col. Dudley Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby . The son of Captain Frederick Claude Hynman Allenby and Edith Mabel Jaffray, he succeeded his uncle as 2nd Viscount Allenby on the latter's death on 14 May 1936...
  
   (1903–1984)
• Michael Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby
  Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby
  Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby is a British politician and hereditary peer, and is the great-nephew of Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby .Allenby was educated at Eton and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst...
  
   (b. 1931)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son, the Hon. Henry Jaffray Hynman Allenby (b. 1968)

The heir apparent's heir is his elder son, Harry Michael Edmund Allenby (b. 24 July 2000)