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ARTHUR RICHARD DILLON (172I-1807)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 273 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARTHUR See also:RICHARD See also:DILLON (172I-1807)  , See also:French See also:arch-See also:bishop, was the son of See also:Arthur See also:Dillon (167o-1733), an Irish See also:gentleman who became See also:general in the French service . He was See also:born at St Germain, entered the priesthood and was successively cure of Elan near See also:Mezieres, See also:vicar-general of See also:Pontoise (1747), bishop of See also:Evreux (1753) and See also:archbishop of See also:Toulouse (1758), archbishop of See also:Narbonne in 1763, and in that capacity, See also:president o: the estates of See also:Languedoc . He devoted himself much less to the spiritual direction of his See also:diocese than to its temporal welfare, carrying out many See also: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 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 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 constitution of the clergy, Dillon had to leave Narbonne in 1790, then to emigrate to See also:Coblenz in 1791 . Soon afterwards he went to See also:London, where he lived until his See also:death in 1807, never accepting the See also:Concordat, which had suppressed his archiepiscopal see . See L . Audibret, Le Dernier President See also:des Etats du Languedoc, Mgr . Arthur See also:Richard Dillon, archeveeque de Narbonne (See also:Bordeaux, 1868) ; L. de Lavergne, See also:Les Assemblees provinciales sous Louis X VI (See also:Paris, 1864) .

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