Sir Alexander Allan, 1st Baronet
Sir Alexander Allan, 1st Baronet (c. 1764 – 14 September 1820) was a British painter and politician.

Of obscure origins, he joined the East India Company as a cadet in 1779 and had been promoted to captain when he served in the Fourth Mysore War in 1798 as Deputy Quartermaster-General. He painted numerous water colours of the campaign.

On his return to England he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1803 to 1806 and 1807 to 1820. He was a director of the East India Company from 1814 to 1817 and 1819 to his death.

He was made a baronet on 18 September 1819, of Kingsgate in the County of Kent. The title became extinct upon his death in 1820. He never married and left a large part of his wealth to Fanny Franklyn, the wife of Henry Franklyn of Copthall House, near Luton, Bedfordshire, with remainder to her son Alexander Allen Franklyn, later Webbe.

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1760s births
1820 deaths
18th-century British painters
British male painters
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UK MPs 1802–1806
UK MPs 1807–1812
UK MPs 1812–1818
UK MPs 1818–1820
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Directors of the British East India Company