Sir John Talbot Dillon, 1st Baronet, Baron Dillon (1739 – 17 July 1805) was an

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politician and baronet.

Career

Dillon was the son of Arthur Dillon and Elizabeth Lambert, daughter of Ralph Lambert; and grandson of Sir John Dillon of Lismullen, knight, and

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for Meath. Dillon sat in the

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, representing

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from 1771 to 1776, and then

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from 1776 to 1783. Dillon may have spent time in

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, and enjoyed the favour of the

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, from whom he received the title of Baron Dillon, of the

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, on 4 July 1783. He used this title after recognition by King George III per Royal Licence on 22 February 1784. In the obituary notice in the ''

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'' for September 1805 it is said that this honour was conferred in recognition of his services in parliament on behalf of Catholics; and the date is given as 1782, which is repeated in the ''Baronetages'' of

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and Foster.

Family

Dillon married Millicent Drake in 1767, with whom he had one son Charles Drake Dillon, who succeeded him as second baronet. His first wife died on 28 May 1768. Dillon remarried the following year, to Sarah Miller, with whom he had five further sons and two daughters.Patrick M. Geoghegan (2010)
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of the United Kingdom by

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in 1801, and died in Dublin on 31 August 1805.

References

Note

Works published before the 1950s should be treated with caution, as these tend to conflate the two Dillons. These include for example * , -
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