Robert Allen (July 30, 1794 – December 30, 1859) was an American lawyer, slaveholder,[1] farmer and politician from Woodstock, Virginia.
He married Mary Ann Walkinshaw, who died in 1818, and then Frances Rebecca Harvey (1806-1873), the daughter of Matthew Harvey, who bore four sons and four daughters, including James Walkinshaw Allen (1829-1862), a VMI graduate who died as acting brigadier general of the Stonewall Brigade at the Battle of Gaines Mill, and CSA Col. Robert Clatworthy Allen (1834-1863) who died in the Battle of Gettysburg.
Their brother Donald Allen (1848-1908) also fought in the unit before becoming a railroad man and Staunton's city engineer.
After admission to the Virginia bar, Allen served as prosecuting attorney for Shenandoah County.
Allen died in 1859 at Mount Pleasant in Essex County, Virginia and is buried in the Longwood Cemetery in Bedford.