Dillon (No. 4.) family genealogy
Theobald, the seventh Lord Dillon, who was a Captain of Infantry in the Regiment of Richard, Earl of Clanricarde, in the service of King James II., married, and had:
- Henry, the eighth Lord, a Col. in 1689.
- Count Arthur Dillon, of whom presently.
2. Count Arthur (b. 1670): son of Theobald; was a Colonel of Dillon’s Regiment; followed King James II. to France; m. Catherine, Sheldon, niece to Colonel Dominick Sheldon, and had with other children (the eldest of whom was born in 1701):
- James, Colonel of D. Regiment; killed at its head at the Battle of Fontenoy.
- Edward, of whom presently.
3. Edward: son of Arthur; succeeded his brother James in command; he fell at the Battle of Laffeldt in 1747. In consequence of the gallantry of these two brothers the French King (Louis) ordered that no one but a Dillon should command their Regiment. Hence it has been long known as “Dillon’s Regiment.” This Edward m. and had:
4. Arthur, born 1750; Colonel of Dillon’s Regiment; m. a cousin of the Empress Josephine, and their daughter was the wife of Count Bertrand, the devoted follower of the Emperor the Great Napoleon. This Arthur was guillotined in 1794.