John Dillon

(1855 fl.)

LBT ID: JoDillo1855
SOURCES: William Charles Macready, Reminiscences, and Selections from his Diaries and Letters (1875) 1:159
After abandoning poetry for the law, he becoming partner in the mercantile firm of Morrison, Dillon & Co.; he was a philanthropist and friend of Charles Dickens.
REFERENCES TO John Dillon: Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XX. Found 1: ¶ 63