John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen

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Captain John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen, PC (13 February 1660 – 8 November 1726), was an Irish peer and politician.

He was born in Dublin, the son of Sir Joshua Allen, and educated at Trinity College Dublin.^[1]

In 1691 he was appointed High Sheriff of County Dublin and then represented County Dublin 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 (MP) for County Carlow between 1795 and 1703 and then for County Wicklow between 1713 and 1715. On 28 August 1717, he was created Baron Allen, of Stillorgan, in County Dublin, and Viscount Allen in County Kildare.