Career
Dillon became the third husband of the Music Hall star Marie Lloyd. They met in 1910 and caused a scandal when, travelling together as "Mr. and Mistress Dillon" in 1913, she was refused entry to the United States for "moral turpitude".
Alec Hurley, Lloyd"s true husband at the time, died two months later, and Dillon and Lloyd were married at the British Consulate in Portland, Oregon, on 21 February 1914.
During World War I, Dillon served in the transport lines at Belton Park, Grantham, the Machine Gun Corps training depot. He was not a good soldier, and was often in trouble.
These officers would often go missing when she arrived. After the war, Dillon began drinking heavily and abusing Lloyd, so that she began drinking as her own escape.
In 1920, they separated, but Lloyd continued to slide downhill until she collapsed on stage in October 1922, dying three days later.
He was portrayed by actor Tom Payne in the 2007 British Broadcasting Corporation drama Mission Marie Lloyd - Queen of The Music Hall. Bernard Dillon, nicknamed as "Ben" in the horseracing community, died in London in May, 1941.