Joshua Allen, 6th Viscount Allen
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Joshua William Allen, 6th Viscount Allen MA (c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1782 – 21 September 1846), 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]
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