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ALLEN. officiated as Senior Mate of the 104, flag-ship at Plymouth of Sir Graham Moore. His appointments have since been – 4 March, 1842, to the 72, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, in the Mediterranean – 20 March, 1843, to the 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Hope, off the coast of Africa – and, 13 Dec. 1845, as First, to the steam-frigate, Capt. Thos. Henderson, now employed in the Pacific.

 ALLEN. 

, born 22 July, 1779, at Blackheath, co. Kent, is son of the late Wm. Allen, Esq., of the Stamp Office, a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital.

This officer entered the Navy, 7 May, 1793, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 44, Capt. Matthew Smith, and was in that ship when she struck on a sunken rock and was lost, off Trincomalee, 2 Aug. 1795. Joining, then, the 32, Capt. Alan Hyde Gardner, he co-operated in the ensuing reduction of the Dutch settlements in the island of Ceylon. He was ultimately promoted, from the 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Peter Kainier, to a Lieutenancy, 18 June, 1799, in the  74, Capts. Wm. Clark and Pulteney Malcolm; after which, on his return from the East Indies, he joined, 29 July, 1803, the 74, Capt. Hon. Robt. Stopford, obtained command, in Nov. 1804, of the Signal station at Selsea, and was next appointed, 26 July, 1805, and 2 June, 1808, to the 38, Capt. Wm. Hall Gage, and 74, Capt. Sam. Warren. On 7 July, 1809, in consequence of the death of the gallant Lieut. Joseph Hawkey, who fell early in the action, Mr. Allen succeeded to the command of the boats of the latter ship, and of the 74,  38, and  18, seventeen in number, containing about 270 officers and men, in the course of a dashing attack on a Russian flotilla of 8 gunboats and 12 merchantmen, carrying altogether double the complement of men, lying at anchor under Porcola Point, on the coast of Finland, and centred between two rocks, from the summits of which they were protected by a shower of grape. Notwithstanding all this, six of the gun-boats were irresistibly boarded and carried, another was sunk, and the whole convoy, with a large armed ship, captured. The loss of the British amounted to 17 men killed and 37 wounded : that of the Russians is reported to have been at least 63 killed, and a proportionate number wounded. For this daring and most important achievement, Lieut. Allen received the sincere thanks of the Commander-in-Chief, and a Commander’s commission bearing date the day of the action. Unable, however, to procure further employment, he at length retired with the rank of Captain, 10 Sept. 1840.

 ALLEN. 

is next brother of Capt. John Jas. Allen, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy 1 Aug. 1822. Becoming Midshipman, in 1823, of the 48, Capt. Sam. John Brooke Pechell, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, and was there employed in the boats during a hard-fought and sanguinary contest with the pirates of Candia, 18 June, 1826. Obtaining his first commission, 24 Feb. 1829, he was afterwards appointed, on the former and North America and West India stations – 25 Feb. 1830, to the 26, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey – 9 July, 1834, as First, to the 18, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy – and, 14 Feb. 1837, in a similar capacity, to the 46, Capt. John Leith. Capt. Allen, who attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841, and had been employed, since 4 June, 1844, in the 72, bearing the broad pendants at Jamaica of Commodores Alex. Renton Sharpe and Dan. Pring, acquired the rank he now holds 9 Nov. 1846.

He married, 30 Dec. 1841, Mary, daughter of the late John Eversley, Esq.

 ALLEN. 

(a) entered the Navy, 12 Feb. 1787, on board the Sybil, Capt.Rich. Bickerton, on the West India station; and from 1790 until Oct. 1793, served in the 98, Capt. Geo Bowyer, and  and, flag-ships at Plymouth and Newfoundland of Sir Rich. Bickerton and Sir Rich. King. Removing then to the 32, he assisted, in company with the  32, at the capture, off St. Domingo, 25 Nov. foUowing, of the French 36-gun frigate L’Inconstante, after a close action of half an hour, in which the Penelope had one man killed and seven, including himself, wounded. Mr. Allen, who obtained a Lieutenancy, on 10 Dec. in the same year, in the 36, Capt. John Lawford, was unfortunately wrecked, in the West Indies, 8 March, 1794; after which event he became successively attached to the  32, Capt. Wm. Hargood, on the North America and Africa stations, and 98, flagship in the Channel of Sir John Colpoys. Assuming the rank of Commander, 6 Dec. 1796, he next, between Feb. 1798 and Nov. 1799, served in the, , and sloops, in the latter of which, on the Jamaica station, he captured, 3 July, 1799, L’Amazon, French letter of marque, of 10 guns and 60 men. He was posted 29 April, 1802, but did not again go afloat until 17 Jan. 1810, when he joined the 36. After visiting Newfoundland, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, and was there transferred, 1 Aug. 1811, to the 74. He returned to England in April, 1812, as Captain of the 38, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Chas. Boyles. During the last two years of the war, Capt. Allen officiated as Agent for Prisoners of War at Newfoundland. This was his last employment. His promotion to the rank of Rear-Admiral took place 17 Aug. 1840; and to that he now holds 9 Nov. 1846.

The Vice-Admiral is in the receipt of a pension for wounds of 250l. He is married and has issue.

 ALLEN. 

(b), born 23 Feb. 1789, in London, is second son of the late Thos. Allen, Esq., F.A.S., F.L.S., F.S.A., of Crane Hall, co. Suffolk, by Jane, youngest daughter of the late Wm. Watts, Esq., and sister of the late David Pike Watts, Esq., of Portland Place, and of Capt. John Watts, R.N. His elder brother, the late Lieut. Thos. Allen, an officer in the Army, served throughout the whole of the Peninsular War, and, in the 1st Line Battalion of the German Legion, shared in the glories of Waterloo; his next brother, David, a Captain in the 2nd Madras Cavalry, died Commandant of Nelloor, in 1832; and his youngest brother, James, is a retired Major of the 7th Bengal Cavalry.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 June, 1800, as Midshipman, on board the 18, commanded by his uncle, Capt. John Watts, and afterwards by Capts. Geo. Irvine, Rich. Dalling Dunn, and Geo. Younghusband, on the Africa and West India stations. While under the latter officer, he commanded the launch at the reduction of Ste. Lucie, 22 Oct. 1803 – was also present at the ensuing surrender of Tobago – and, on 23 March, 1804, took part in a gallant action of an hour and a half, in which, with a loss to herself of one man killed and 16 wounded, the  beat off the French frigate-built privateer L’Egyptienne, of 36 guns and 248 men, 8 of whom were killed and 19 wounded. Removing next, with Capt. Younghusband, to the 24, Mr. Alien, as Master’s Mate, contributed, during a servitude of nearly two years in that ship, to the capture, on the same station, of, among numerous other vessels, the French privateers Huron, of 20, and Jeune Adéle of 14 guns. He then returned home in the 18, Capt. Eras. Aug. Collier, and after an intermediate attachment to the 64, and  74, flag-ships at the Nore, and again in