NOTABLE VISITOR

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1936, Page 10

NOTABLE VISITOR

VISCOUNT DILLON

DISTINGUISHED CAREER

On a health-recruiting trip to New Zealand, Viscount Dillon, C.M.G., D.5.0., and Viscountess Dillon arrived from Sydney today by the Wanganella. They are proceeding to the South Island to visit Mr. Frank Dillon, of Marlborough, who is Viscount Dillon's cousin. They will remain in the Dominion about six weeks. When interviewed by "The Post' this morning, Viscount Dillon said that both he and Lady Dillon had come to the Southern Hemisphere on a health trip. ' They had spent a fortnight in Australia, and had visited points of interest around Sydney and Canberra. He was very keen on hunting but also liked fishing and shooting, and wanted to catch some New Zealand trout. "I would like, also, to shoot some of your big stags," he .said. Viscount Dillon said he knew Lord Galway, and would probably be visiting their Excellencies while in the Dominion. Lord Galway's brother-in-law was a close friend of his. Colonel Eric Fitzgerald Dillon is the nineteenth Viscount, the title having been created in 1622. He was "born in 1881 and was educated at Rugby and the Staff College at Camberley. He entered the Army with the Fourth Battalion, King's Own, Lancaster Regiment in 1889, and joined the Army Service Corps in 1900. He served in the South African War and the Great War, being mentioned in dispatches seven times. He was created a Brevet Lieut-Colonel, Chevalier and Officer of the Legion of Honour; Officer of the Order of Leopold; and received both the French and Belgian Croix de Guerre. He was General Staff Officer with the British Army on the Rhine and later with the First Division at Aldershot. He was Military Assistant to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1923 to 1925, when he retired. He is a member of his Majesty's Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. His home is in Oxfordshire.