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DILLON, ARTHUR RICHARD (172I-1807)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 273 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DILLON, See also:
ARTHUR (Fr. Arius)
ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN (1830 – 1886)
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RICHARD
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RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
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RICHARD (172I-1807) , See also:

French See also:

arch-See also:

bishop, was the son of Arthur Dillon (167o-1733), an Irish See also:

GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

gentleman who became See also:

general in the French service. He was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at St Germain, entered the priesthood and was successively cure of Elan near See also:

MEZIERES, PHILIPPE DE (c. 1327—1405)

Mezieres, See also:

VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

vicar-general of See also:

PONTOISE

Pontoise (1747), bishop of See also:

EVREUX

Evreux (1753) and See also:

ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of See also:

Toulouse (1758), archbishop of See also:

NARBONNE

Narbonne in 1763, and in that capacity, See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president o: the estates of See also:

LANGUEDOC

Languedoc. He devoted himself much less to the spiritual direction of his See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese than to its temporal welfare, carrying out many See also:

WORKS

works of public utility, See also:

bridges, canals, roads, harbours, &c.; had chairs of See also:

chemistry and of physics created at See also:

MONTPELLIER

Montpellier and at Toulouse, and tried to reduce the poverty, 'especially in Narbonne. In 1787 and in 1788 he was a member of the See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly of Notables called together by See also:

Louis XVI., and in 1788 presided over the assembly of the See also:

clergy. Having refused to accept the See also:

CIVIL

civil constitution of the clergy, Dillon had to leave Narbonne in 1790, then to emigrate to See also:

COBLENZ (KOBLENZ)

Coblenz in 1791. Soon afterwards he went to See also:

LONDON

London, where he lived until his See also:

DEATH

death in 1807, never accepting the See also:

CONCORDAT (Lat. concordatum, agreed upon, from con-, together, and cor, heart)

Concordat, which had suppressed his archiepiscopal see. See L. Audibret, Le Dernier President See also:

des Etats du Languedoc, Mgr. Arthur Richard Dillon, archeveeque de Narbonne (See also:

BORDEAUX

Bordeaux, 1868) ; L. de Lavergne, See also:

Les Assemblees provinciales sous Louis X VI (See also:

Paris, 1864).

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