sentences:  On 13 January 1714 Charles's uncle Henry, the 8th Viscount Dillon, died in Ireland.This uncle had been attainted as Jacobite in 1690 but had been pardoned and had obtained the reversal of the attainder in 1693.He was succeeded by his son Richard as the 9th Viscount Dillon, to whom Charles would succeed later as the 10th Viscount.