Dudley Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby

Dudley Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby (* January 8, 1903, † 17 July 1984) was a British politician and military.

Life and career

Allenby went to school at Eton and the Military Academy at Sandhurst. He was a soldier in 1923 at the 11th Hussars regiment used in India. In 1926 he became adjutant of this regiment and changed from 1930 to 1934 as an instructor at the Military Academy Sandhurst. From 1934 to 1937 he was employed in Egypt and was promoted to captain in 1936. From 1937 to 1940 he was adjutant of the Army Fighting Vehicles School, where he was promoted to Major in 1938. From 1940 to 1942 he was deputy commander of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and in 1942 he was Lt.- Col. at the 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry Association. In 1946 he ended his military career.

Allenby belonged to the House of Lords from 1936 until his death in 1984.

Family and Title

Allenby was married twice. The first marriage was with Gertrude Mary Lethbridge Champneys, daughter of Edward Geoffrey Stanley Champneys, closed on 10 July 1930. When their son was born in 1931 Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby, 1949, the couple was divorced. In his second marriage he had since April 13, 1949 Daisy Hancox, daughter of Charles Francis Hancox, married.

As the son of Captain Frederick Claude Hynman Allenby and Edith Mabel Jaffray, he was on 14 May 1936 to the death of his uncle, his successor as Viscount Allenby. With his death, the son Michael inherited the peerage.

Swell

• Personal data to www.thepeerage.com (English)
• ' Allenby ', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920-2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007

• Viscount ( Allenby )
• Military person (United Kingdom)
• Member of the House of Lords
• Briton
• Born in 1903
• Died in 1984
• Man
• Politicians ( 20th century)