Dillon Baronets

The baronets also held the title of Baron Dillon of the Holy Roman Empire, which was granted by Imperial Letters Patent of the Emperor Joseph II dated 4 July 1783. . The ancestral motto is Whilst I breathe I hope.

Dillon Baronets (1801)

• Sir John Dillon, 1st Baronet (1739-1805)
• Sir Charles Drake Dillon, 2nd Baronet (died 1840)
• Sir Arthur Richard Dillon, 3rd Baronet (died 1845)
• Sir William Dillon, 4th Baronet (1774-1851)
• Sir Arthur Henry Dillon, 5th Baronet (1828-1852)
• Sir John Dillon, 6th Baronet (1806-1875)
• Sir John Fox Dillon, 7th Baronet (1843-1925)
• Sir Robert Dillon, 8th Baronet (1914-1982); brother of Michael Dillon (nee Laura Dillon).

In 1958 Debrett's Peerage listed Michael Dillon, the world's first female-to-male transsexual to undergo sex reassignment surgery, as heir to his brother's baronetcy, while Burke's Peerage mentioned only a sister, Laura Maude. The editor of Debrett's told Time Magazine that Dillon was unquestionably next in line for the baronetcy: "I have always been of the opinion that a person has all rights and privileges of the sex that is, at a given moment, recognized."

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