Luke Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock explained

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

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Death of Lord Clonbrock. galwaydecadeofcommemoratioin.org.
  2. Book: Cokayne, George Edward . Vicary Gibbs . The St Catherine Press Ltd. . The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom . III . 1913 . London . 328 .
  3. Web site: Knights of the Order of St Patrick. https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022551/http://www.leighrayment.com/orders/patrick.htm. 7 June 2008. Rayment. Leigh. usurped. 2008-12-13.
  4. Web site: Person Page. www.thepeerage.com.
  5. Web site: Clonbrock Estate papers. nlt.ie.