Editing Viscount Allenby

{{short description|Viscountcy in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}

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[[File:Lord Allenby.jpg|200px|thumb|Edmund Allenby, <br /> 1st Viscount Allenby]]

'''Viscount Allenby''', of [[Megiddo (place)|Megiddo]] and of [[Felixstowe]] in the [[Suffolk|County of Suffolk]], is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]. It was created on 7 October 1919 for the prominent military commander [[Field Marshal]] [[Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby|Sir Edmund Allenby]], 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. The first Viscount's son was killed in action on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in 1917.<ref name=DP/>

The creation of the peerage was accompanied by a financial grant of £50,000,<ref>[[C. Brad Faught]], ''Allenby: Making the Modern Middle East'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020), p. 179</ref> {{Inflation|UK|50000|1919|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}.

The first Viscount was succeeded according to a [[Remainder (law)|special remainder]] by his nephew Captain Frederick Allenby, the second Viscount. The latter's son, the third Viscount, who succeeded in 1984 was one of the ninety elected [[hereditary peer]]s that remain in the [[House of Lords]] after the passing of the [[House of Lords Act 1999]], and sat as a [[crossbencher]]. {{As of|2020}}, the title is held by his son, the 4th Viscount, who succeeded in 2014.<ref name=DP/>

The family seat is Newham Lodge, near [[Hook, Hart|Hook]], [[Hampshire]].

==Viscounts Allenby (1919)==
*[[Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby|Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby]] (1861–1936)
**Lt. Horace Michael Hynman Allenby, MC (1898–1917), only son of the 1st Viscount, killed in action before Viscountcy bestowed on his father.
**Captain Frederick Claude Hynman Allenby, CBE, JP, RN (1864–1934), younger brother of the 1st Viscount, next in line through the ''special remainder''.
*[[Dudley Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby|Dudley Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby]] (1903–1984), nephew of the 1st Viscount, son of Frederick Allenby. 
*[[Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby|Michael Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby]] (1931–2014), only son of the 2nd Viscount
* Henry Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 4th Viscount Allenby (born 1968), only son of the 3rd Viscount

==Present peer==
Henry Jaffnay Hynman Allenby, 4th Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, the only son of the third Viscount Allenby and his wife Sara Margaret Wiggin, daughter of Lt. Colonel Peter Milner Wiggin, was born on 29 July 1968. On 29 September 1996 he married Louise Victoria Green, daughter of Michael Green, of Sands Farm, [[Faringdon]].<ref name=DP>"Allenby, Viscount" in ''[[Debrett's Peerage]]'' (2020)</ref><ref>''[[Burke's Peerage]]'', volume 1 (1999), p. 60</ref> They have two sons, Harry Michael Edmund Allenby (born 2000, [[heir apparent]]) and Charles Michael James Allenby (born 2004).<ref name=DP/>

He succeeded as Viscount Allenby on the death of his father in May 2014.<ref>[https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/viscount-allenby-29w8j2tlrgg?ts=1684894302744 "Viscount Allenby"] (obituary), ''[[The Times]]'', 23 May 2023 {{subscription required}}</ref>

Allenby owns a company which manages woodlands and hedgerows. In December 2017, he was a guest of honour at the [[Tower of David#Tower of David Museum|Tower of David Museum]] in [[Jerusalem]], which staged a commemoration of General Allenby's capture of the city in 1917. He commented "To understand about Field Marshal Allenby you have to go to a museum. There were no movies made about him, as there were about Lawrence of Arabia."<ref>Renee Ghert-Zand, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/100-years-later-allenby-returns-to-jerusalem/amp/ "100 years later, Allenby returns to Jerusalem"], ''[[The Times of Israel]]'', 11 December 2017, accessed 14 November 2023</ref>

==Family tree==
{{Infobox coat of arms
|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|centre|120px]][[File:Allenby Escutcheon.png|centre|160px]]
|shield = Per bend Argent and Gules in the sinister three crescents two and one of the second and in the dexter three horses' heads erased one and two of the first all within a bordure Azure.<ref name=DP/>
|crest = Issuant out of a crescent Gules a demi-lion Proper.<ref name=DP/>
|supporters = Dexter a horse reguardant Or sinister a camel reguardant Argent.<ref name=DP/>
|motto = Fide et Labore<ref name=DP/>}}
{{Allenby family tree}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.{{Page needed |date=November 2021}}
*{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/36 | location=London, UK |publisher=Dean & son, limited|page=36}}
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