Luke Gerald Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock KP PC (Ire) (10 March 1834 – 12 May 1917) was an Irish peer. In 1865, he was appointed High Sheriff of County Galway. He became

Baron Clonbrock Baron Clonbrock, of Clonbrock in County Galway, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 3 June 1790 for Robert Dillon, 1st Baron Clonbrock, Robert Dillon, who had earlier represented Lanesborough (Parliament of Ireland constituen ...

in 1893 on the death of his father Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock and was appointed a Knight of the

Order of St Patrick The Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick is a dormant British order of chivalry associated with Ireland. The Order was created in 1783 by King George III at the request of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, ...

on 29 August 1900. He married

Augusta Caroline Crofton Augusta Caroline Crofton Dillon (16 October 1839 – 5 September 1928) was a prolific Anglo-Irish amateur photographer and flaneur in 19th and early 20th century Ireland. Over the course of her career she took over 5,000 photographs. A significan ...

, daughter of

Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton (1 August 1806 – 17 December 1869), known as Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Baronet, from 1816 to 1817, was an Anglo-Irish Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. Crofton was the son of Sir Edward Crofton ...

of Mote and Lady Georgina Paget, on 18 July 1866 at Roscommon,

County Roscommon County Roscommon () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is part of the province of Connacht and the Northern and Western Region. It is the List of Irish counties by area, 11th largest Irish county by area and Li ...

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. As a result of her marriage, Hon. Augusta Caroline Crofton was styled as Baroness Clonbrock on 4 December 1893. The finding aid of the collection related to the personal and political papers of the family of Dillon, Barons Clonbrock, Ahascragh (

County Galway County Galway ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht. The county population was 276,451 at the 20 ...

, c.1600-1960) was compiled by Stephen Ball, at the

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1834 births 1917 deaths 19th-century Irish people Barons in the Peerage of Ireland High sheriffs of County Galway Irish representative peers Knights of St Patrick Lord-lieutenants of Galway Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock, Luke {{Ireland-baron-stub