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The Third Viscount Allenby

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    "The 3rd Viscount Allenby, who has died aged 83, enjoyed a successful career both as a cavalry officer and as a cross-bench member of the House of Lords.


    Allenby cared deeply about the welfare of animals, especially horses, and from 1997 to 1999 he was chairman of the International League for the Protection of Horses, the leading equine charity. He also became chairman of the selectors for the British Junior Three-Day Event team, which won a gold medal in Poland in 1998.


    After entering the Lords, he chose to make his maiden speech, in 1985, on the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Bill. It was a model of careful research, drawing on first-hand practical experience, and he became a regular contributor in the Lords on animal welfare and on military matters.


    In 1997 he became a deputy Speaker and a deputy chairman of committees, a complex task which requires a mastery of Lords’ procedure so as to ensure the accurate and timely dispatch of business and legislation. As a cross-bencher, he was a member variously of committees on House of Lords offices, procedure, personal bills and administration.


    By reason of his popularity and enthusiasm, he was chosen by his hereditary cross-bench colleagues to remain as an elected hereditary peer in the House when so many were culled in 1999. In all, he served for 29 years.


    Born at Camberley, Surrey, on April 20 1931, Michael Jaffray Hynman Allenby was the son of the 2nd Viscount Allenby and the great-nephew of Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, whose troops took Jerusalem from the Turks in the First World War, and for whom the viscountcy was subsequently created.
    Michael was educated at Eton and at Sandhurst, where he was said to have talked the commandant into letting him miss parade to go hunting.
    He was commissioned in 1951 into the 11th Hussars. He served in Germany and Malaya and subsequently as ADC to the governor of Cyprus, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, during the Eoka uprising. One night, a bomb was found in the governor’s bed; it was smartly removed by a batman with the aid of a shovel. Postings to Aden, Kuwait, Fort Knox, Kentucky and Germany were followed by a move to Hong Kong as general staff officer (grade 2). After appointments as brigade major of 51 Brigade and deputy assistant military secretary at UK Land Forces, Allenby commanded the Royal Yeomanry."
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11226513/The-3rd-Viscount-Allenby-obituary.html
     

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