References
Dictionary of National Biography lists: Arthur Dillon
(?1670-1733), general in French service, colonel of jacobite regt.
in France, maréchal-de-camp 1704, superintendent entrenchments
at siege of Barcelona 1714, Pretender’s agent in Paris, d. St. Germaine;
Arthur Richard Dillon (1750-1794) [see below]; Arthur Richard
Dillon (1721-1806), son of Arthur Dillon (1670-1733), bishop of Evreux
1753, archb. of Toulouse 1758, of Narbonne 1763, diocese abolished by
concordat, d. London; Edouard Dillon (1751-1839), colonel of Provence
regt., formed new Dillon regt. at Colblenz 1791, lieut.-gen. 1814, ambasador
to Saxony 1816-81, and Tuscany 1819; Sir James Dillon (fl.1667),
lieut.-gen. and gov. of Athlone and Connaught, participated in Leinster
revolt against Parliament, 1652, brig.-gen. in service of Spain and the
Fronde, pensioned by Charles II; John Blake Dillon (1816-1866)
[see below]; Sir John Talbot Dillon (?1740-1805) [see below]; Sir
Lucas Dillon (d.1593, son of Sir Robert Dillon (?1500-1580), sol.-gen.
for Ireland 1565, att.-gen. 1566, MP 1569, chief baron of court of Irish
exchequer 1570, knighted 1576, seneschal for W. Kilkenny 1583, apointed
inter al. to admin. government pending arrival of Sir John Perrot 1584,
commissioner for plantation of Munster 1587; Peter Dillon (?1785-1847),
engaged in sandal-wood trade between W. Pacific Islands and China and
employed in timber trade for East India market, went in search of lost
ships of L Pérouse wrecked on Santa Cruz group, and published account
of voyage, 1827-28; Sir Robert Dillon (?1500-1580), att.-gen. for
Ireland 1534, second justice of queen’s bench 1554, cheif-justice
of court of common pleas 1559-80. Sir Robert Dillon (d.1597), second
justice of presidency of Connaught 1669, chancellor of Irish exchequer
1572, second justice of common pleas 1577, chief-justice 1581, imprisoned
on accusation of corruption and cruelty, declared innocent and restored
1595. Robert Crawford Dillon (1795-1847), Theobald Dillon
(1745-1792), lieut.-col. in Dillon’s regt. 1780, took part in attack
on Grenada 1779, knight of St. Louois 1781, brig.-gen. 1791, murdered
by his own republican troops in panic at Tournay 1792; Thomas Dillon,
4th Viscount Dillon (?1615-?172), lord of privy counvil in ireland 1640,
joint gov. of Mayo 1641, deputed to Irish parliament to present statement
of grievance to Charles I, and erved under king 1642, joined Marquis of
Ormonde’s rising 1649, master of the rolls (custos rotulorum) 1662.
Thomas Dillon or de Leon (1613-1676), jesuit novice at Seville
1527, oedained and appt. professor of humanities at Cadiz 1640-?676, orientalist
and theologian; Wentworth Dillon (?1633-1685), 4th Earl of Roscommon
[see below]; Sir William Henry Dillon (1779-1857), son of Sir John
Talbot Dillon, co-operated with the British army as naval lieutenant off
Wexford and arreted Skallian 1798, siezed by Dutch commodore Valterbach
and handed over to french for detention 1803, commander 1805, served at
Walcheren off Spain and in East Indies, K.C.H. and knighted 1835, vice-admiral
of the red 1853; Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee (1777-1832),
13th Viscount Dillon [see below].
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