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ALLEN. the West Indies, of Admirals Bartholomew Sam. Rowley and Sir Alex. Cochrane, was promoted to an Acting-Lieutenancy, 9 April, 1807, in the 98, Capt. Geo. Losack. On 14 Sept. following, Mr. Allen was confirmed into the 18, in which sloop, under the successive commands, in the North Sea and Baltic, of Capts. Pringle, Stoddart, Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, Thos. Wells, and Thos. Rich. Toker, he continued to serve, until appointed Senior Lieutenant, 13 March, 1812, of the 22, Capts. Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay and Sam. Leslie, on the East India station; where, in June and Sept. 1813, he assisted at the capture of the piratical settlement of Sambas, in Borneo, and commanded a division of boats during the operations which led to the restoration of the Sultan of Palamhang. After officiating for a few weeks as Acting-Captain of the, he was promoted to ihe command, 4 Feb. 1814, of the 18. On 19 June, 1815, hohe [sic] removed, by order of Rear-Admiral Sir Geo. Burlton, to the 22; but was obliged from ill health to invalid, 30 April, 1816. On his arrival in England, Capt. Allen found that he had been officially posted in the, by commission dated 20 Sept. -1815; which ship, however, for the reason assigned, he never joined. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

Capt. Allen married, 24 Sept. 1822, Mary, youngest daughter of Dan. Shirley, Esq., merchant, of Limestreet. – J. Hinxman.

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entered the Navy (from, we believe, the R.N. College) 23 Aug. 1824; passed his examination in 1828; became Mate, in 1838, of the 10, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Martin Hunter, on the South America station; and was promoted, while serving in the Coast Guard, 15 Jan. 1841. His appointments have since been – 13 July, 1841, to the 16, Capt. Geo. Henry Seymour, in the East Indies – 6 July, 1844, to the Coast Guard – and, 18 June, 1845, to the command of the Revenue-vessel, in which he is now serving.

Lieut. Allen is Senior of 1841.

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, born 15 May, 1806, is eldest son of John Lee Allen, Esq., of Errol Park, co. Perth; and brother of Capt. H. M. E. Allen, R.N.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Feb. 1818; and embarked, in April, 1819, on board the 46, Capt. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon. After an intermediate and uninterrupted servitude on the America, West India, and Mediterranean stations, he was promoted (having passed his examination in 1824) to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 5 April, 1827. His subsequent appointments in that capacity were – on 28 of the same month, to the 10, Capt. Wynne Baird – 21 July, 1828, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the  74, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 28 April, 1829, and 17 March, 1831, to the  18, and  10, Capts. Thos. Gill and Thos. Metcalfe Currie, both on the Jamaica station – and, 30 Sept. 1831, to the 42, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, also in the West Indies. He obtained the rank of Commander 6 Oct. 1832, but remained thenceforward unemployed until appointed, 27 Aug. 1840, to the 16. After officiating for some months as Senior Officer on the east coast of Africa and in the Indian Ocean, Capt. Allen was advanced to Post-rank 23 Nov. 1841. He has not since been afloat.

He married, 28 Aug. 1832, Lady Henrietta Dundas Duncan, eldest daughter of the Earl of Camperdown, granddaughter of the celebrated Admiral Lord Duncan, and sister of Viscount Duncan, M.P. for Bath, by whom he has issue two sons and two daughters. – Joseph Woodhead.

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was born, 5 Nov. 1781, at New Ross, co. Wexford.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 June, 1796, as A. B., on board the 16, commanded on the Home station by his uncle, Capt. Grosvenor Winkworth. In Dec. following, he became Midshipman of the 64, bearing the flag in the Dowtns of Admiral Joseph Peyton; on afterwards removing from which ship to the  50, Capt. Joseph Peyton, he accompanied the expedition to Holland in 1799. In Oct. 1802, Mr. Allen obtained an Acting-Lieutenancy in the, Capts. John Surman Garden, Sir Jas. Lind, and Lord Geo. Stuart, on the East India station, where he was wrecked in a gale of wind, off Trincomalee, 7 Jan. 1805. After officiating for a short period as Lieutenant of the Naval Hospital at Madras, he next, in July following, joined, again as Acting-Lieutenant, the 32, Capt. Hon. Archibald Cochrane; while under whom he assisted at the destruction of a Dutch brig-of-war under the batteries of Batavia – commanded one of two boats at the cutting out of a brig of 4 guns, and six sail of coasters, from beneath another battery on the Java shore – and witnessed the annihilation at Griessee, 11 Dec. 1807, of the dockyard and stores, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in the East Indies. Mr. Allen, whose promotion was at length confirmed by commission dated on 19 of the latter month, removed, in July, 1808, to the 36, Capts. Chas. Gordon and Christ. Cole, in which frigate he continued until Jan. 1812. In Nov. 1809, we find him attending an expedition; against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, where he commanded a boat at the destruction of the town of Kas-al-Khyma, their principal stronghold. At the celebrated capture, in August, 1810, of the island of Banda Neira, Lieut. Allen was among the foremost to escalade the walls of the Castle of Belgica, and for his conduct on that occasion was mentioned by Capt. Cole in his despatches. While yet in the, he contributed, as her Senior Lieutenant, to the reduction of Java, in Aug. 1811. In Dec. 1813, having been transferred to the 38, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, he assisted at the capture of the Dutch islands of Schouwen and Tholen. He afterwards served, from Feb. 1814, to Jan. 1816, in the 50; commanded by the last-mentioned officer on the North America and West India station; but he has not been since employed.

Lieut. Allen married, 4 Dec. 1839, and has issue three sons and one daughter.

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was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 5 Feb. 1808; and became a Retired Commander, 3 Feb. 1845.

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entered the Navy, 2 Oct. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. Thos. Harvey, with whom he continued to serve, in the same ship and the 74, on the Mediterranean and Baltic stations, until Feb. 1810. He was present as Midshipman, while in the, at the passage of the Dardanells, in Feb. 1807, and on 26 March, 1808, assisted at the capture, in the Adriatic, of the Italian brig of war Friedland, of 16 guns. On leaving the, Mr. Allen sailed in the 36, Capt. Geo. Sayer, for the East Indies, where he co-operated in the reduction of Java in Aug. 1811, and took part in a vigorous and successful attack on the piratical settlement of Sambas, in Borneo, 28 June, 1813. He obtained his first commission 2 March, 1815, and after intermediately officiating as Lieutenant pro tem, of the 18, Capt. Wm. Everard, returned to England in the following September. Being next appointed, 12 Nov. 1834, to the yacht, Capt. Sir Sam. Warren, he served in that vessel until promoted to the rank of Commander, 20 June, 1836. Joining, 10 Oct. 1840, the steamer, Capt. Allen subsequently attended a disastrous 