Background
He was born at West Maitland to farmer Thomas Dillon and Catharine Hyndes.
He was born at West Maitland to farmer Thomas Dillon and Catharine Hyndes.
He attended school locally before studying classics at the University of Sydney, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1868 and a Master of Arts in 1876.
He was called to the bar in 1869. In 1869 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Hunter, but he was defeated in 1872. In 1877 he returned to the Assembly as the member for Tenterfield.
He was re-elected in 1880, but in 1882 resigned on his appointment as chief magistrate.
From 1885 he was Crown Prosecutor for the South West District. Dillon died in 1888 at Burwood.