Valentine Blake Dillon (1847 – 31 March 1904)'Obituary', ''The Times'', 1 April 1904 was an Irish lawyer and politician. Valentine Blake Dillon was a nephew of John Blake Dillon and cousin of

John Dillon John Dillon (4 September 1851 – 4 August 1927) was an Irish politician from Dublin, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 35 years and was the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. By political disposition Dillon was an a ...

. He qualified as a solicitor in 1870, and took part in many high-profile trials, including those related to the Land War. In 1891 he was the

Parnellite The Irish National League (INL) was a nationalist political party in Ireland. It was founded on 17 October 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell as the successor to the Irish National Land League after this was suppressed. Whereas the Land League h ...

candidate in the closely fought North Sligo by-election, but failed to win the seat. He later acted as election agent for James McCann in his successful campaign to win Dublin St Stephen's Green, a seat hitherto held by the Conservatives, and for his successor, Laurence Waldron. From 1894 to 1895, he was Lord Mayor of Dublin.

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1845 births 1904 deaths Lord Mayors of Dublin Irish Nationalist politicians {{Ireland-bio-stub