Record

Document Reference	Pl C 52/5
Title	Letter from Major John Allen, Dublin, Ireland to [W.H.C. Bentinck] 3rd Duke of Portland; 28 Feb. 1801
Date	28 February 1801
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Explains how he has been promised a 'comfortable situation' for years; when the vacancy in the 'Port Surveyor's Place' of Drogheda came up he was told it was his and so paid the fees of the commission as was desired by Lord Cornwallis; was then disappointed to hear that another Lord Lieutenant may come over; explains his mortification over this matter; argues that he will only succeed if the duke helps him, 'an old officer who was of your family'; solicits the duke's help in getting for him the position of aide de camp and gentlemen of the bedchamber to the Lord Lieutenant, positions he had held in the duke's family; mentions the difficulties of maintaining his large family.
Term	occupations and professions, aide-de-camp
	employment, requests for
	patronage, requests for

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA11332	Cornwallis; Charles (1738-1805); 1st Marquess Cornwallis	1738-1805
NA41299	Allen; John (fl 1801); Major	fl 1801
NA905	Bentinck; William H.C. Cavendish- (1738-1809); 3rd Duke of Portland; succ. 1762	1738-1809