Wednesday 3 June 2015

875 Henry Allen


Constituency : Pembroke  1880-85;  Pembroke  and  Haverfordwest  1885-6

Henry  replaced  Edward  Reed  who  switched  to  Cardiff.

Henry  came  from  a  Whig  gentry  background. His  father  was  a  previous  MP  for  Pembroke. He  was  educated  at  Rugby  and  Oxford  and  became  a  barrister.

Henry  stood  down  in  1886. He  became  the  first  chairman  of  Pembrokeshire  County  Council.

He  died  in  1908  aged  93.

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