comte Édouard Dillon

Edward Dillon ( 1750 - 1839 ), Count of Dillon in 1770 , said "the beautiful Dillon" is a military diplomat and French . He is the son of Robert Dillon de Roscomon, Lord of Terrefort ( 1710 - 1764 ), and of Miss Dicconson. Do not confuse Count Édouard Dillon and Count Arthur Dillon .

Colonel at twenty years of the regiment of Provence , he fought in America , then, always very in favor, was charged with diplomatic missions ( 1784 - 1790 ). Finally he emigrated.

In 1796 , he married a Creole from Martinique , Émilie Pocquet de Puilhery, whose fortune, then considerable, allowed him to have a fairly good house in London . The future Charles X dined there sometimes, and the other princes very frequently. From this union was born a daughter, Georgine Dillon, with whom the King of Prussia Frederick William III fell very much in love during her father's ministry in Dresden , to the point of wanting to marry her at all costs. Georgine refused and will marry the May 25 , 1820Count Károlyi, Hungarian magnate .

In 1814 , Édouard Dillon was appointed lieutenant-general and master of the wardrobe of the future Charles X. He followed Louis XVIII to Ghent , then was appointed Minister of France in The Hague , in Dresden ( 1816 - 1818 ), then in Florence .

Notes

He was Master of the Wardrobe to Charles X of France before his accession to the throne.

However, the daughter in question, Georgina, was by the unmentioned second wife, Emilie Pocquet de Pulhery. The first wife, Fanny, daughter of Sir Robert Holland, died in 1777. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.talk.royalty/idYToWRJNeA

Edouard (20 June 1750 Wrightinton - 1939 Paris), ministre plénipotentiaire in Firence (Tuscany)

• m I 19 June 1777 Hautefontaine to Frances Harland, † 1777;
• m II 20 oct. 1796 London Emilie Pocquet de Puillery, a Créole.

Edouard's daughter (II m):

• Georgine, en 1817 le roi de Prusse s'éprit d'elle aux Eaux de Carlsbad (Bohême); she married (as virgin or not) 25 May 1820 Stephen count Károlyi (Hungary).

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References

• -https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Dillon
• Scott, S. (2004, September 23). Dillon, Edouard (1750–1839), army officer and diplomatist in the French service. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 8 Dec. 2020, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0.... Dillon, Edouard (1750–1839), army officer and diplomatist in the French service, was born at Wrightington, Lancashire, on 20 June 1750, the second son of Robert Dillon (1710–1764), formerly a banker at Dublin, and his second wife, Marie Dicconson. His father settled in Bordeaux...
• https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/
• Link Notes Request for admission into the Society of the Cincinnati on behalf of Edward Dillon. Description of Dillon's service and wounds he received during the war. In French.
• https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23870/lot/186/?category=list Inscriptions read: 'Sir Robert Harland Bt Father to the Countess Dillon died 1784' and 'Frances Harland married Comte Edward Dillon August 1777 and died October of the same year'. Hayes, R. (1942). Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 31(124), 477-492. Retrieved December 9, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/30098105 page 487.