• Robert Dillon, 2nd Earl of Roscommon PC (Ire) (died 1642) was styled Baron Dillon of Kilkenny-West from 1622 to 1641 and succeeded his father only a year...
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  • politician Robert Dillon, 2nd Earl of Roscommon (died 1642), Irish peer Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock (1807–1893), Irish peer Robert A. Dillon (1889–1944)...
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    Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (1637–1685), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and poet. Wentworth was born in October 1637 in Dublin, probably in St...
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    Earl of Roscommon was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 5 August 1622 for James Dillon, 1st Baron Dillon. He had already been created...
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  • James Dillon, 1st Earl of Roscommon (died March 1641) fought for the crown in the Nine Years' War. He was ennobled despite being a Catholic after his...
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  • Carey or Cary Dillon, 5th Earl of Roscommon, PC (Ire) (1627–1689) was an Irish nobleman and professional soldier of the seventeenth century. He held several...
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  • courtier, James Stewart, a son of Walter Stewart of Blantyre. Her second husband was Robert Dillon, 2nd Earl of Roscommon. "Person Page". thepeerage.com...
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    the Battle of Lowestoft. Frances Boyle, who married firstly Colonel Francis Courtenay and secondly Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon. Elizabeth...
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  • Sir James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon (c. 1605 – 1649) was an Irish magnate and politician. He was born a Catholic but converted at a young age to the...
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    Theobald Dillon, 1st Viscount Dillon in the 17th century. They lay in north-eastern Connacht (counties Mayo and Roscommon) and in western Leinster (Westmeath)...
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    [heir] of George Henry [Lee], 2nd Earl of Lichfield ..." Brown & Power 2005, p. 284. "... the succession of the title and lands of the Dillons in Ireland...
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    daughter of James Dillon, 1st Earl of Roscommon and became the father of the 2nd Viscount and the 4th Viscount Lucas (1579–1656), ancestor of the 7th and...
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    Eleanor Loftus, and his sister Elizabeth married James Dillon, Earl of Roscommon. Roscommon, unlike most of the Anglo-Irish nobility, remained staunchly loyal...
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    daughter of Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton of Mote and Lady Georgina Paget, on 18 July 1866 at Roscommon, County Roscommon, Ireland. As a result of her...
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    22nd Viscount Dillon (b. 1973) The heir apparent is the present holder’s son, Hon. Francis Charles Robert Dillon (b. 2013) Earl of Roscommon Baron Clonbrock...
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  • seven sons: James (c. 1570 – 1641), became the 1st Earl of Roscommon in 1622 Henry (died 1609) of Kentstown in County Meath Christopher Oliver Alexander...
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  • David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant (category People of Elizabethan Ireland)
    married (1) Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy; and (2) Robert Dillon, 2nd Earl of Roscommon At the outbreak of the First Desmond Rebellion in 1569, his father...
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    parents' house at Kilmore, County Roscommon, Ireland. He was the second but eldest surviving of the three sons of Theobald Dillon and his wife Mary Talbot. At...
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    House, County Roscommon, and was buried in the Dillon Vault at Ballyhaunis. Henry succeeded as the 13th Viscount Dillon, at the age of 36, he also inherited...
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  • King, 1st Earl of Kingston: 1772–1797 Maurice Mahon, 1st Baron Hartland (died 1819) Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet: 1782–1797 Charles Dillon, 12th Viscount...
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  • The High Sheriff of Roscommon was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Roscommon, Ireland from 1575 until 1922, when the office was abolished...
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    Battle of Lowestoft), Lady Frances Boyle (wife of Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon), Lady Elizabeth Boyle (wife of Nicholas Tufton, 3rd Earl of Thanet)...
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    Dillon of Sinogweny Theobald Dillon married Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Talbot of Templeogue, County Dublin, and of Mount Talbot in County Roscommon,...
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    "Christopher (Sir), of Bealalahin, Mayo, m. [married] Nov. 1604, Lady Jane Dillon, eldest daughter of James, 1st Earl of Roscommon; and d.v.p. 28 Feb....
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  • Lucas Dillon of Loughglynn (1579–1656) was in 1628 one of the negotiators of the Graces; he was MP for Roscommon in the two Irish Parliaments of Charles...
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    Baron Clonbrock (category Extinct baronies in the Peerage of Ireland)
    Gerald Dillon, brother of Sir Richard Dillon, ancestor of the Earls of Roscommon. Gerald's grandson Thomas Dillon, who died in 1606, was Chief Justice of Connacht...
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  • brother-in-law of Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell. Henry was born in about 1600, probably at Templeogue, County Dublin, the second son of Robert Talbot...
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    becoming the 2nd Count Dillon in France and the 2nd Earl of Dillon in the Jacobite peerage. In the War of the Polish Succession (1733–1735), Dillon's Regiment...
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    Henry Folliott, 1st Baron Folliott (category Barons in the Peerage of Ireland)
    the 2nd Baron Folliott. His widow married Robert Dillon, who was then styled "Baron Dillon of Kilkenny-West" as the heir of the 1st Earl of Roscommon. She...
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  • capable of fighting an expensive electoral contest; Hartland attempted to persuade Henry Augustus Dillon to stand alongside Thomas for Roscommon to bolster...
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