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{{Short description|British soldier and peer (1903–1984)}}
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| birth_name    =Dudley Jaffray Hynman Allenby
| birth_date    =8 January 1903
| death_date    ={{dda|17 July 1984|8 January 1903|df=y}}
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| birth_place   = [[Malta]]
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| allegiance    ={{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
| branch        =[[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
| serviceyears  =1923–1946
| rank          =[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]]
| unit          =[[11th Hussars]], [[Royal Gloucestershire Hussars]]
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[[Lieutenant-Colonel]] '''Dudley Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby''' (8 January 1903 – 17 July 1984), was a British peer and soldier.<ref name="person">{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p455.htm#i4541|title=Lt.-Col. Dudley Jaffray Hynman Allenby, 2nd Viscount Allenby of Megiddo|publisher=The Peerage|accessdate=14 July 2014}}</ref>
==Background and education==
Allenby was born at [[Malta]] on 8 January 1903, the son of Captain Frederick Claude Hynman Allenby and Edith Mabel (née Jaffray) Allenby. His father was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Births |date=10 January 1903 |page=1 |issue=36974}}</ref> He attended [[Eton College|Eton]], and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. He succeeded his uncle as 2nd [[Viscount Allenby]] on the latter's death on 14 May 1936.
==Career==
Allenby joined the [[11th Hussars]] in 1923, served in India, 1923–26, after which he served as an Adjutant in the 11th Hussars, 1926–30.  He was an instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1930 to 1934. He attained the rank of captain in 1936, served in Egypt, 1934–37. He served as an adjutant in the Army Fighting Vehicles School, 1937–40; he became a major, 1938. He was second in command of the [[Royal Gloucestershire Hussars]], 1940–42, and a lieutenant-colonel of the [[2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry]] from 1942. He retired in 1946.
==Family==
Lord Allenby married firstly, Gertrude Mary Lethbridge Champneys (1905 - 1988), daughter of Edward Geoffrey Stanley Champneys, on 10 July 1930. They had one son:
*[[Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby]] (1931–2014)
The couple were divorced in 1949. Allenby married secondly, Daisy Hancox (d. 1985), daughter of Charles Francis Hancox, on 13 April 1949.
==Arms==
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|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|centre|150px]] [[File:Allenby Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]
|escutcheon = Per bend Argent and Gules in the sinister three crescents two and one of the second and in the dexter three horses' heads erased one and two of the first all within a bordure Azure.
|crest = Issuant out of a crescent Gules a demi-lion Proper.
|supporters = Dexter a horse reguardant Or sinister a camel reguardant Argent.
|motto = Fide Et Labore<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |year=1949}}</ref>}}
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-dudley-allenby | the Viscount Allenby }}
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[[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
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[[Category:11th Hussars officers]]
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[[Category:Derbyshire Yeomanry officers]]
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