Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon
- Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon
Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen (1705 – 1787) was an English peer.
Henry's father was the Hon. Arthur Dillon, a son of the 7th Viscount (1670-1737) who was Colonel of the Dillon Regiment and in 1711 created Count Dillon in France, and Earl of Dillon in 1721 by the "Old Pretender" James Francis Edward Stuart (but recognized by Jacobites as "King James III and VIII"). Henry's mother was Catherine, or perhaps Christina, a daughter of Ralph Sheldon, who served as a maid of honor to Queen Mary of Modena, consort to James II.
On October 26 1744, he married the Lady Charlotte Lee, the great-granddaughter of Charles II and Barbara Villiers. As the eldest surviving child of the second Earl of Lichfield, Charlotte Lee inherited the estate of her uncle, the fourth Earl, when he died childless in 1776. Therefore, Lord Dillon's wife was collateral heiress of Sir Henry Lee, who built the original Lodge in Wychwood Forest in Oxfordshire. From his mother, Charles Dillon-Lee, their son, inherited the estate of Ditchley but not the title of Lichfield. Ditchley remained the home of the Viscounts Dillon until 1934.
Issue
His children by the Lady Charlotte Lee of Lichfield (d. 11 June 1794) include:
*Charles (6 November 1745-9 November 1813); his successor.
*Frances (1747-1 March 1825), m. Sir William Jerningham, 6th Baronet, 7th Baron Stafford
*Arthur (3 September 1750-13 April 1794); a general in the French service who was guillotined. This officer was father, by his second wife, of Madame Bertrand, so celebrated for her devotion to the Emperor Napoleon.
*Laura (born c. 1753)
*Charlotte (11 September 1755-15 August 1782); m. Valentine Browne, 1st Earl of Kenmare (1754–1812)
*Theobald (born c. 1757), Count
*Henry (28 June 1759-7 July 1837); lieutenant-colonel.
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