Lucas Dillon of Loughglynn

In June 1627 a convention was elected in Ireland^[4] that chose 11 agents^[5] to be sent to England to negotiate with the King. Sir Lucas was one of them. Three were Protestants, the remaining eight Old English Catholics.^[6]

On 8 December 1630 Sir Lucas bought the wardship of his nephew Thomas Dillon, 4th Viscount Dillon, who was then 15 years old.^[7]

Sir Lucas sat for County Roscommon in the parliaments of 1634–1635^[8] and the Parliament 1640–1649.^[9]

On 15 September 1643 at Sigginstown, Strafford's unfinished house,^[10] the Confederates signed a cease-fire with Ormond, called the "Cessation".^[11] Sir Lucas was one of the signatories for the Confederates.^[12][13] The Confederates agreed to pay the King £30,000 (about £6,400,000 in 2023^[14]) in several instalments.

n January 1649, the Second Ormond Peace was signed.^[15] The Irish Catholic Confederation was dissolved,^[16] and power handed to 12 Commissioners of Trust of which Sir Lucas was one.^[17] On 2 August Jones defeated the Irish royalists under Ormond, who had been besieging Dublin, at the Battle of Rathmines.^[18]

Dillon died in 1656. ^[19]

Subject matter monographs:

• Click here. Murphy in Dictionary of Irish Biography