Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus PC (I) (c.1687 – 31 December 1763) was an

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politician and peer. Loftus was the son of Henry Loftus and Anne Crewkern. He served in the

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as the

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for Fethard between 1710 and 1713,

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from 1713 to 1715 and Wexford County between 1715 and 1751. Upon leaving the Commons, Loftus was elevated to the

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as Baron Loftus, of

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in County Wexford in the

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on 5 October 1751, and assumed his seat in the

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. He was invested as a member of the

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in 1753. He was further honoured when he was created Viscount Loftus of Ely in

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, also a title in the Irish peerage, on 19 July 1756. He married Hon. Anne Ponsonby, daughter of

William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon (1659 – 17 November 1724), was an Anglo-Irish peer. Background He was born in 1659, the third son of Sir John Ponsonby (c. 1608/9 – 1678) of Bessborough in County Kilkenny, a Cromwellian colonel of H ...

and Mary Moore, in April 1706. They had five children:John Debrett, ''Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland'' (1820), 922. *Hon. Mary Loftus (d. 1779) *Hon. Anne Loftus (d. 10 November 1768) *Hon. Elizabeth Loftus (d. June 1747) who married

Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet Sir John Tottenham, 1st Baronet (6 July 1714 – 2 January 1787) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Tottenham was the son of Charles Tottenham and his first wife Ellinor Cliffe, daughter of John Cliffe of Mulrankin, County Wexford and Barbara Carr ...

and was the mother of

Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely Charles Tottenham Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely, Order of St Patrick, KP, Privy Council of Ireland, PC (23 January 1738 – 22 March 1806) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Life Born Charles Tottenham, he assumed the additional surname of ...

Nicholas Hume-Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely Nicholas Hume-Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely PC (I) (1708 – 31 October 1766) was an Anglo-Irish peer and member of the House of Lords. He was the son of Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus and Anne Ponsonby, daughter of William Ponsonby, 1st Vis ...

(1708 - 31 October 1766) *

Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely KP, PC (Ire) (18 November 1709 – 8 May 1783), styled The Honourable from 1751 to 1769 and known as Henry Loftus, 4th Viscount Loftus from 1769 to 1771, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. He was the youn ...

(18 November 1709 – 8 May 1783) Loftus also had two illegitimate children by his Irish housekeeper, May Hernon: *

Sir Edward Loftus, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Loftus, 1st Baronet (c.1742 – 17 May 1818) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Loftus was the illegitimate son of Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus by a woman with the surname of Phillips. He was educated at Kilkenny College. Loftus ...

(c.1742 - 17 May 1818) * Colonel Nicholas Loftus

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Nicholas Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglicanism, Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the n ...

Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Members of the Irish House of Lords Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wexford constituencies Year of birth uncertain