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Luke Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock

Luke Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock

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Luke Gerald Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock KP PC (Ire) (10 March 1834 – 12 May 1917) was an Irish peer.[1]

Lord Clonbrock at Clonbrock Castle in 1900

In 1865, he was appointed High Sheriff of County Galway.[2] He became Baron Clonbrock in 1893 on the death of his father Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 29 August 1900.[3]

He married Augusta Caroline Crofton, daughter of Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton of Mote and Lady Georgina Paget, on 18 July 1866 at Roscommon, County Roscommon, Ireland.[4] As a result of her marriage, Hon. Augusta Caroline Crofton was styled as Baroness Clonbrock on 4 December 1893.

The finding aid[5] of the collection related to the personal and political papers of the family of Dillon, Barons Clonbrock, Ahascragh (county Galway, c.1600-1960) was compiled by Stephen Ball, at the National Library of Ireland.

References

  1. [1]
    "Death of Lord Clonbrock". galwaydecadeofcommemoratioin.org.
  2. [2]
    Cokayne, George Edward (1913). Vicary Gibbs (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Vol. III. London: The St Catherine Press Ltd. p. 328.
  3. [3]
    Rayment, Leigh. "Knights of the Order of St Patrick". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. [4]
    "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
  5. [5]
    "Clonbrock Estate papers" (PDF). nlt.ie.
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