Talk:Roderick Alleyn

The NZ television productions
The New Zealand television productions are not well-known -- I've been told they don't exist, which makes me chuckle because I recorded them from a Canadian public television station more than 20 years ago and still have copies of them. Even IMDB only lists one of them. Accounting4Taste 22:47, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Alleyn
Alleyn's School is not "colloquially known as Dulwich College". They are two separate schools - their only link is that they were both founded by the 16th century actor Edward Alleyn. TheOneOnTheLeft (talk) 19:29, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Heartily agree with the above; they are two different schools. But which did Ngaio Marsh's father attend? Hawden (talk) 20:10, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Roderick Alleyn heir to the baronetcy?
In the novel Final Curtain, Sir Cedric Ancred, while being questioned by Roderick Alleyn, refers to Alleyn's nephews "with whom...he had been at school".

Unless Alleyn had other siblings in addition to his elder brother Sir George, then this suggests that Sir George Alleyn had at least two sons. If so, Roderick Alleyn would not have been heir apparent to the baronetcy.Rithom (talk) 21:32, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Surely nephews could be the children of sisters rather than brothers, and thus they would be lower down the line of succession than Roderick Alleyn. Simon Coward (talk) 13:09, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

For Cedric Ancred to have known that his classmates were Roderick Alleyn's nephews, it seems likely that they also had the surname Alleyn, and were thus the sons of a brother. I suppose it's possible that the nephews were sons of a sister, and were simply so proud of their uncle that they boasted of the family connection. But that seems somewhat gauche for an upper class family. Also, except in very rare circumstances, baroneticies do not pass through the female line. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rithom (talk • contribs) 04:30, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Roderick Alleyn's family
I haven't read the novel, and so it may be clearer there, but here it isn't clear. The sentence "Their late father, also named George (Death in a White Tie, 1938) implicitly had at least one brother (Alleyn's paternal uncle), because the first novel (A Man Lay Dead, 1934) mentions a cousin": surely, the presence of a cousin (always assuming that cousin = first cousin in this instance) merely indicates that their late father must have had a sibling - not necessarily a brother. Simon Coward (talk) 13:05, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

If the cousin (Christina Alleyn) were the child of their late father's sister, she would not have borne the surname Alleyn. Rithom (talk) 07:42, 30 June 2014 (UTC)