Lancelot Allgood | |
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.png) Lancelot Allgood pointing to a plan of Nunwick Hall, which dates the painting to about 1738 | |
| Born | 11 February 1711 Warren County, Virginia, United States |
| Died | 26 April 1782 (aged 71) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Landowner, Politician |
| Known for | High Sheriff of Northumberland, Member of Parliament, Deputy Lord Lieutenant |
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| Spouse | Jane Allgood |
| Children | 8 |
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Lancelot Allgood (11 February 1711 – 26 April 1782) was a British landowner and politician who served as High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1746, and as member of parliament for Northumberland in the 10th Parliament of Great Britain between February 1748 and 1754. He also served as a deputy Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland.
Allgood is remembered as the sponsor of the corn road from Hexham to Alnmouth, and of the military road from Carlisle to Newcastle, both of which were established under Turnpike Acts during his short tenure as MP.
He is also remembered as a protagonist in a feud with Ann Cook and her husband, innkeepers, which played out in cookery books Cook authored, attacking Allgood, his half-sister Hannah Glasse, who was herself a cookery book writer, and his aunt Margaret Widdrington.
Allgood is implicated as one of the authorities commanding a militia which, in a 1761 riot in Hexham, killed 45 people. More generally, Allgood was a member of a family against whom many in Hexham held a grudge arising out of their failure to follow the Jacobinism of the Earl of Derwentwater.