John Blake Dillon [SEP] cause of death
cholera in Killiney, Co. Dublin, aged 52, and is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
He was the father of John Dillon, and grandfather of James Dillon.
Further reading.
- The Politics of Irish Literature: from Thomas Davis to W.B. Yeats, Malcolm Brown, Allen & Unwin, 1973.
- John Mitchel, A Cause Too Many, Aidan Hegarty, Camlane Press.
- Thomas Davis, The Thinker and Teacher, Arthur Griffith, M.H. Gill & Son 1922.
- Brigadier
nationalist cause. They developed close links with James Dalton of Orange, New South Wales, meeting two lady members of his wealthy and very influential family who later became their wives. They both then travelled to the United States where they collected a further £15,000 sterling, many others following their example in the next years (Davitt, O'Brien, John Dillon, Eduard Blake).
In his absence in 1883, he was elected as MP for his father's old constituency of Wexford Borough, taking his seat at Westminster.