1260 Charles Allen

Constituency : Pembroke  and  Haverfordwest  1892-5

Charles  recovered   Pembroke  and  Havefordwest  from  the  Tories  by  195  votes. He  was  a  distant  relative  of  the  previous  Liberal  MP  Henry  Allen.

The  Allens  were  a  prominent  gentry  family  in  Pembrokeshire. Charles'  father  was  a  civil  servant  in  India. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Cambridge  and  became  a  barrister. He  worked  in  India  for  a  number  of  years  becoming  a  judge  in  the  Calcutta  Court  of  Small  Causes  and  Recorder  of  Rangoon.

Charles'  maiden  speech  highlighted  the  grievances  of  the  dockyard  workers  at  Pembroke  where  the  Admiralty  treated  them  as  if  they  were  subject  to  naval  discipline. His  last  speech  was  in  favour  of  Welsh  disestablishment.

Charles  was  defeated  in  this  always  finely  balanced  seat  by  169  votes  in  1895.

He  died  in  1927  aged  80.