John Talbot Dillon
Life 1740-1805; b. Co. Meath; MP for Wicklow 1770; created baron of Holy Roman empire, in Vienna by Emperor Joseph II, in recognition of services to Catholic interests; wrote on Spain, e.g.., Travels through Spain (1780); also Historical and Critical Memoirs of the General Revolution in France, 1789 (1790), which includes many contemporary documents; d. Dublin. DIW ODNB
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Works Travels through Spain (1780), trans. into German as Reise durch Spanien welche wichtige Beobachtungen aus der naturgeschichte, über den Handel, Fabriken, Agrarbau usw. enthält (Leipzig 1782); Peter, the Cruel [q.d.], trans. as Regierungsgeschichte Peter des Grausamen (Leipzig: Weygand 1789), 2 vols.
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References Dictionary of National Biography: ?1740-1805; MP for Blessington, 1776-83; Baron of Holy Roman Empire, prev. to 1780; baronet, 1801; Travels Through Spain (1780); an epistolary history of Spanish poetry (1781); memoirs of French Revolution (1790); Sketches on the Art of Painting, trans. from Spanish (1782).
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