Charles Joseph Alleyn was a Quebec

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 lawyer and political figure.

He was born in County Cork

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, Ireland

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 in 1817 and studied at Clongowes Wood College

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. Alleyn came to Lower Canada

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 with his family around 1837. He was called to the bar in 1840. He supported the annexation movement in Quebec. He served on the city council for Quebec City

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 from 1851 to 1857, serving as mayor in 1854. In 1854, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

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 for Quebec City. He supported the abolition of siegeurial tenure

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, an elected Legislative Council

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 and separate school

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s. He served on the Executive Council

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 as Commissioner of Public Works from 1857 to 1858 and secretary for Canada East

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 from 1858 to 1862. In 1866, he resigned from politics to accept an appointment as sheriff for the district of Quebec; he served in this post until his death in Quebec City in 1890.

His brother Richard

Richard Alleyn

Richard Alleyn was an Irish-born lawyer, judge, educator and political figure in Quebec. He represented Quebec-Ouest in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1877 to 1878 as a Conservative....

served in the Quebec legislative assembly.