The New Student's Reference Work/Dillon, John

Dillon, John, Irish Nationalist member of Parliament and leader of what is known
JOHN DILLON, M. P. as the Plan of Campaign, was born at Dublin in 1851, and entered the British Parliament in 1880 as member for Tipperary and since 1885 has sat for East Mayo. He has suffered imprisonment twice (in 1881 and in 1891) for treasonable offenses. He at one time was a close ally of Parnell, and later actively opposed him. He succeeded Mr. Justin McCarthy in 1896 as leader of the Nationalists, and is known “for his intense religious fervor and his transparent sincerity,” though neither political party in the House of Commons has cared to endorse his attitude as an Irish agitator.