page_title: Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet
section_title: Baronetcy and Member of Parliament
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet / Baronetcy and Member of Parliament
caption_attribution_description: Caricature of Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet. Caption read "The soldier who couldn't draw his sword".
context_page_description: Lieutenant General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet VC, GCB, DL was a British soldier and politician. 'Allan' in the surname was added in March 1880.
context_section_description: In 1858 Havelock was granted the baronetcy, originally intended for his father (who died a year earlier), and he and his mother were granted a parliamentary pension of £1,000 a year. He later went to England and became a Member of Parliament in 1874 for his father's birth-town of Sunderland until 1881. He inherited Blackwell Grange, the former property of his cousin Robert Allan, changed his surname to Havelock-Allan, (as was required by the will of the latter) and became an MP for South East Durham from 1885 to 1892.
caption: The soldier who couldn't draw his sword" – a caricature of Havelock-Allan in the House of Commons, Leslie Ward, 1879.
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