The son of the fifth viscount (d. 1816); educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he served under Wellington in the Peninsular War. Thomas Creevey described him as “a penniless lord and Irish pensioner, well behaved and not encumbered with too much principle.”

REFERENCES TO Joshua William Allen, sixth viscount Allen:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 20 October 1834 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 September 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 4 October 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)