Charles Dillon, 12th Viscount Dillon

Charles Dillon-Lee, 12th Viscount Dillon, KP, PC (6 November 1745 – 9 November 1813) was Member of Parliament (MP) for the English borough of Westbury (1770).

Ditchley House, the seat of the Lee Family

He was born Charles Dillon and changed his name to Dillon-Lee in 1776 under the terms of the will of his uncle, George Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield. He inherited Ditchley House in Oxfordshire from his mother, Charlotte Lee, daughter of George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield and as such a granddaughter of 1st Earl of Lichfield and his first wife Charlotte Fitzroy, who was an illegitimate child of Charles II. Lord Dillon inherited his title in 1787 on the death of his father Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon.

His first wife was Henrietta-Maria Phipps, who was illegitimately descended from James II, and produced several children including Henry, the 13th viscount. He married, secondly, Marie Rogier in 1787.

After the Papal recognition of the Hanoverian Dynasty in January 1766, he conformed to the established church in 1767. In 1767 he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[1] In 1770 he was elected MP for Westbury constituency and in 1787 served as High Sheriff of Mayo.

He was invested as a Knight of the Order of St. Patrick in 1798. In 1802, Lord Dillon sold the ancestral manor of Quarendon, in which the ancient seat of the Lee family had once stood, to James Dupre, esq. of Wilton Park. He married Henrietta-Maria Phipps, daughter of Constantine, 1st Lord Mulgrave. His son, Henry Augustus, 13th Viscount Dillon, assumed the additional surname and arms of Lee. In 1806 Lord Dillon raised a regiment, namely the 101st Regular, recruited from the inhabitants in and around Loughglynn, County Roscommon, Ireland.

He died at Loughlynn in 1813.

Ancestry

Charles Dillon-Lee, 12th Viscount Dillon's ancestors in three generations

Charles Dillon-Lee, 12th Viscount Dillon	Father: Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon	Paternal Grandfather: Gen. Arthur Dillon	Paternal Great-grandfather: Theobald Dillon, 7th Viscount Dillon
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Mary Talbot of Templeogue, Ireland
		Paternal Grandmother: Catherine (or Christina) Sheldon	Paternal Great-grandfather: Gen. Ralph Sheldon of Winchester
			Paternal Great-grandmother: ?
	Mother: Charlotte Lee of Lichfield	Maternal Grandfather: George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield	Maternal Great-grandfather: Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Charlotte Fitzroy
		Maternal Grandmother: Frances Hales	Maternal Great-grandfather: John Hales of Woodchurch, 4th Baronet
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Helen Bellings

References

1. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=2&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27lee%27%29. Retrieved 8 November 2010. 

• "thePeerage.com - Person Page 1288". http://www.thepeerage.com/p1288.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-14. 

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Peregrine Bertie William Blackstone	Member of Parliament for Westbury 1770–1774 With: Peregrine Bertie	Succeeded by Thomas Wenman Nathaniel Bayly
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Henry Dillon	Viscount Dillon 1787–1813	Succeeded by Henry Dillon-Lee