Legacy and Death
Dillon's contributions to literature were not very important, or marked by much originality, but they are evidence of a cultivated taste and an acute and active mind. Bowle, in the preface and notes to his elaborate edition of ‘Don Quixote,’ repeatedly acknowledges his obligations to Baron Dillon for sound critical suggestions received during the progress of his work, and Baretti speaks of him with respect in his ferocious attack upon Bowle, printed in 1786, under the title of ‘Tolondron.’
Dillon married Millicent Drake with whom he had six sons and three daughters. He was created a baronet of the United Kingdom by King George III in 1801, and died in Dublin in August 1805.
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