sentences:  Being a peer of Ireland, Lord Dillon resigned the colonelcy in favour of his brother James and left France in 1744 as England prepared a law to forbid its citizens to fight for foreign countries.His brother James succeeded him as colonel-proprietor of Dillon's Regiment.On 26 October 1744 Lord Dillon, aged 39, married Charlotte Lee, second daughter of George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield in a Catholic ceremony at the chapel of the Portuguese Embassy in London.