Office: | Lord Mayor of Dublin |
Term Start: | 1898 |
Term End: | 1900 |
Predecessor: | Richard F. McCoy |
Successor: | Thomas Devereux Pile |
Birth Place: | County Wicklow, Ireland |
Death Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Nationality: | Irish |
Daniel Tallon (1836 – 13 July 1908) was an Irish politician and businessman. He was a member of Dublin Corporation, and served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1898 to 1900.[1]
He was born in Rathdrum, County Wicklow in 1836.[2] He was a wine and spirits merchant.[2] For over twenty years he was either vice-chairman or chairman of the Licensed Grocers' and Vintners' Protection Association.[2]
In 1890, in which year he was elected to Dublin Corporation for the Mansion House ward. He was High Sheriff of Dublin in 1895.[2] He became Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1898, and was re-elected in 1899.[2]
While lord mayor, he setup the Mansion House Committee's Relief Fund to alleviate poverty in rural Ireland.[2] A road in Castletownbere is named after him.[3]
In 1904 Tallon lost his corporation seat and left politics.[2] He died on 13 July 1908 at his home in Rathmines.[2] James Joyce mentions him in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.[4]