A number of interesting points about the lives of several different Alleyne family members — an invention that holds up half the modern world, a volcano, a royal connection, and a carriage that was heard but never arrived.
10 curiositiesSir John Gay Newton Alleyne is credited with inventing the "I" beam, made by joining two "T" beams together to create a very strong section capable of supporting loads over a much wider span. The I-beam is an integral part of almost every building and industrial structure built today.
Read his biography →Cdr. Victor Percy Alleyne, R.N., R.C.N., was awarded the O.B.E. for his contribution to convoy formation across the Atlantic during the Second World War. As part of his award he also had an island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, named for him.
Read his biography →Edward Wentworth Holder Alleyne died in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1897 while attempting to join an expedition to the Klondike. He contracted pneumonia while waiting for a train in Winnipeg, and was buried in the Edmonton Cemetery.
Read his biography →The Alleyne family of Barbados are connected to Princess Margaret. Serena Alleyne Stanhope, descended from Thomas Harbin Alleyne's sister Dorothy Deborah Forster Alleyne (1788–1843), married David Armstrong-Jones, Princess Margaret's son.
On the night that Henry Alleyne was lost at sea, the household staff at Porters Great House, where he lived, heard him racing up the long driveway to the house in his horse-drawn carriage — but he never arrived at the door. It was weeks later that news of his death reached the island.
See Porters →Charles Bruce Knight Alleyne travelled from England to Montreal in 1857 to be married, but died before the wedding took place. He is buried there.
Frederick Milton Stanley Alleyne, son of the Rev. Innes Milton Alleyne, died in 1931 as a result of being gassed in France in 1917 during the Great War, while fighting with the U.S. Army.
Sir John Gay Alleyne, while Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbados, petitioned King George III to reject a new tax on the people of Barbados proposed by the then Governor, Cunningham. The proposed tax was rejected.
Read his biography →Alleyne Fitzherbert, Lord St. Helens, grandson of Judith Alleyne (b. 1703), had Mount St. Helens in Washington State named after him by his friend Capt. George Vancouver.
Abel and Anna Alleyne, parents of Thomas Harbin Alleyne, were acquaintances of John Adams and his wife Abigail, and periodically visited them for tea. Abigail wanted very much to buy the Alleyne home, which had once belonged to her own Quincy family. She was never able to purchase it, and called it her castle in the air.
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